Few weeks after Vanguard Newspapers apologised and retracted its story on the allegations by Timi Frank regarding a N90B FIRS fund...
Few
weeks after Vanguard Newspapers apologised and retracted its story on
the allegations by Timi Frank regarding a N90B FIRS funding to Vice
president Yemi Osinbajo for the 2019 elections, another media
organization, a broadcast station has apologized to VP as well.
Wazobia
FM apologized to the Vice President, saying that it had since
discovered, like other well-meaning individuals and organisations that
the allegations were baseless, untrue and unsubstantiated.
The station which also aired the report of the unfounded
allegations through its popular programme titled: ”Dem Say Dem Say”,
retracted the reports, saying ”We are sorry the Vice President.”
The
radio station apologised and tendered its unreserved apology to the
Vice President, through the presenter of the programme, popularly known
as Expensive James, saying that it erroneously joined the broadcast of
fake news.
It was gathered that the Vice-President, had ,through his
solicitors, Osaror Ehogbami SAN and Femi Atoyebi SAN, wrote to the
station that the report was meant to tarnish his hard-earned reputation
built over the years, saying that Vice President Osinbajo had never been
found wanting or linked to any act of corruption in his private or
public offices.
In a letter, the solicitors had said that for over four decades,
the VP had been a distinguished scholar and legal practitioner and had
risen through the ranks and files of his career. The lawyers added that
the VP was Attorney General of Lagos State for 8 years and became a
Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2002 with unblemished records.
The
station, however, took a swipe on all the media who carried the report,
saying evidence have proven that the report was fake news and a
calculated attempt to tarnish the image of the Vice President.
The
station said: “Christian Association of Nigeria has said that the
allegations are sponsored by those bent on tarnishing the image of the
VP, he is not corrupt.
“If
our station has joined those tarnishing the VP’s image to carry out
fake news on allegations of the N90 bn, we are sorry because, we don’t
have any ulterior motive, especially for unfounded and unsubstantiated
reports such as that.
“We are very sorry Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, don’t be annoyed, because you are a Godly man,” it added.
The presenter said that the station also looked forward to inviting
Vice President Osinbajo to the station to tell his side of the story
and expose the cabals said to be responsible for the dissemination of
the fake news so that the world could hear from him directly.
It would be recalled that the Vanguard Newspaper had also retracted
the baseless story in its entirety, saying that the report lacks
factual substances.
In
a statement titled:”RETRACTION / APOLOGY to VP Yemi Osinbajo”, the
Editor of the paper, Mr Eze Anaba, tendered apology to Vice President
for the embarrassment caused by the report, saying that the newspaper
holds the VP in high esteem.
The
statement read in part:”We tender our profound apology to Professor
Yemi Osinbajo SAN, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
on whom the story touches directly and the All Progressives Congress,
A.P.C. for any inconvenience or embarrassment the publication has
occasioned them. We hold Professor Osinbajo, S.A.N. in the highest
esteem.”
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