A former Chairman of the National Electricity Regulation Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi, has admitted that his tweet where he posted the photo of the Chief Justice of Nigeria Kayode Ariwoola, was baseless.
Amadi, who is a regular analyst on Arise Television, said he he did not post the photo which had gone viral with the aim of making any allegations.
“I deleted because from my high moral sense and behavior it was a baseless tweet. It is not for falsehood as I didn’t make any allegation,” Amadi stated in another tweet in the early hours of Saturday.
The photo of Ariwoola, who has gone viral, was insinuated to have been taken by someone who sighted him in London on his way to meet the president elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
As a result of the viral image, many had said the said meeting was part of strategic moves to win the Supreme Court on the side of Tinubu ahead of the coming litigations over the presidential election which held on February 25.
Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart Peter Obi, have approached the court demanding that Tinubu’s victory be annulled.
Tinubu Responds
The APC Presidential Campaign Council Media Director Bayo Onanuga, in a response described the story as fake.
He said, “The story was a pure concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of our recent election, which was won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine meeting between the President-elect and the respected Chief Justice of our country, any where. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and authenticity.
To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheel chair to board a plane.
The President elect left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with so wide disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?
We can confirm that the President-elect, who left Nigeria Tuesday has not been in London.
He is right now in France to have a deserved rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022.
He will go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.
As we move towards inauguration on 29 May, 2023, Nigerians should expect more false and salacious news from a section of the Nigerian media, on the payroll of the opposition.
We urge the media once again to cross check their information from the President-elect media office before rushing to press.
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister and Director of New Media of the Tinubu campaign, also called for the head of Amadi on Saturday.
He said security agencies ought to invite Amadi for questioning on the intention of his post.
He wrote, “Creatures like one Sam Amadi who used the CJN’s picture in a wheelchair and claimed he was on his way to see the President-elect in the UK for a meeting about the 2023 presidential election should not only be invited by the DSS and NPF, investigated & charged to court for defamation, criminal falsehood and incitement but they should also have pictures of their ugly faces printed on toilet paper and used to clean dirty but-holes.”