Bode George bursts fresh fake news, debunks statement on reported INEC Chairman meeting Tinubu

By BASHIR ADEFAKA

A yet another attempt to incite the Nigerian voters against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its leaders before and during the Saturday February 25, 2023 presidential election process is said to have been thwarted, as a concocted statement purportedly credited to a leader of the main opposition party, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George,slandering the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu,  was debunked.

The DEFENDER recalls an audio-visual clip in circulation, on the eve of Saturday elections where the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his running and Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, and Chairman of PDP Presidential Campaign Council and Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, CFR were purportedly said to have plotted to rig the presidential elections.

We recall also that even before the affected PDP leaders and the party reacted, even non-party members across the country had said no one needed to be told before one knows that the audio-visual was a fake news.

Just as the elections were being concluded although with little hitches in places mainly Lagos, another such social media rumour peddling went to town, this time, projecting Chief Bode George, a former Military Governor of Old Ondo State and one time Deputy National Chairman South of the PDP in bad light as to purportedly disparaging the INEC chairman, querying to know why and for what reason he sneaked into Lagos using the private jet of presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and meeting with the APC candidate night of Saturday after the elections.

However, Chief Bode George, on Sunday, denied such ‘mischievous’ report published in some section of the media (excluding The DEFENDER) and attributed to him, describing such concoction called media report as laughable.