The Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has blamed “Biafra News Platform” for reports alleging that he demanded N50 billion monthly from the former Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode during his administration, saying it is not true.
Reports had said Ambode, who emerged Governor of Lagos State in 2015, had only four years in office as his attempt to secure a second tenure failed after he lost the APC primary election in 2018 after he allegedly lost favour with Tinubu.
The online report stated that Ambode lost favour due to his inability to ensure remittance of the monthly N50 billion to the godfather of Lagos politics, Tinubu.
Dismissing the report, the Director, Media and Communications for Tinubu Campaign Organisation(TCO), Bayo Onanuga said Tinubu could not have made such a demand.
According t him, “the spuriousness of the statement is in the evidence that Lagos did not begin to clock N50 billion revenue until after Ambode left office.
“Tinubu could not have demanded a billion monthly payment from Ambode when the state government didn’t make such in a month throughout the tenure of Ambode”, the statement added.
The statement revealed that the site where some of the fake news emanated from has been identified as World of News with URL as world news. with Onanuga stating that “a content analysis of the site clearly showed that it is a Biafra news platform.”