APC Slams ThisDay For Linking Tinubu's Dead In-Law To Drug Saga, Makes Strong Demands

• APC has accused ThisDay of reporting fake news about Bola Tinubu and his late distanced in-law, Kolapo Akande
• APC PCC said Akande is a respected medical doctor and a husband to a commissioner in Lagos, Lola Akande
• But ThisDay linked the deceased to the drug case against Bola Tinubu, relying on a tweet by one David Hundeyin, who have declared himself as supporter of Peter Obi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council (PCC), has accused a Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay, of reporting fake news, about its candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his distance in-law, Kolapo Akande, who died last week.

The APC PCC, in a statement sent to Legit.ng, said the deceased was a respected medical doctor and husband to Lola Akande, a Lagos commissioner while demanding an apology from the newspaper company.

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The statement, which was signed by Bayo Onanuga, the director of media and publicity of the council, maintained that ThisDay report denigrated Akande and Tinubu, for saying that they were both involved in the drug trade.

Onanuga said the paper does not respect the dead by painting him as a drug lord and 'lived under the radar'.

The APC PCC informed ThisDay that Kolapo was a house of representative candidate of the Accord Party some years back.

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But ThisDay in its pursuit of "jaundiced, cash and-carry journalism", said Kolapo was the same Muezz Akande in the alleged 30-year-old investigation of drug case against Bola Tinubu in the United States.

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The statement reads in part:

"ThisDay wrote a mere fiction and had relied on a false tweet by one David Hundeyin, a hatchet writer and so-called investigative journalist, who has identified himself as a Peter Obi supporter."

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Legit.ng earlier reported that Bola Tinubu will be having his first media chat on Wednesday with veteran journalist, Kadaria Ahmed.

However, the Tinubu/Shettima Media Support (TMS), a media wing of the APC presidential campaign council, who shared the information, did not disclose the time and venue for the interview.

Tinubu has been criticised for not speaking with the media since the campaign stated, rather, the presidential candidate has been speaking to groups and organisations.

Source: Legit.ng