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The Nigerian media has showed a lot of bias since it emerged
that Ashiwaju bola Ahmed Tinubu,former Governor of Lagos State has been down
with what looks like a terminal problem.
Investigations by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos showed
that the politicians seen by many as one of the bastions of political resistance in the opposition has
actually brought over the highly critical press.
In 2009 ,Paedia Express Multimedia learnt that some top line
media managers at The Nation ,The Guardian, Thisday ,The Punch ,now moribund
National Life, Television and radio industry executives all had plots of land
,houses at Ikosi Road around the Shangisha area of Lagos courtesy of the political
titan.
The Source had noted in frustration that with the media
bribed to that level and with others continually placed under monthly salaries
he does not know how the misdemeanors by the politician will ever get known by
Nigerians.
A source recently
confided in this reporter when he note that the former Governor did not even
make any enquiries about how the News Magazine in which he was believed to own 45 percent was faring because of a
reportage over Mrs Ajumobi’s money laundering [problems with the London
metropolitan police.
The politician was said to have told the Bayo Onanuga led
company that they were trying to destroy his investments by exposing Senator Ajumobi’s
wife in the print media and over the web.
The source said:”I remember that it was the
Editor-in-chief,Mr Bayo Onanuga that wrote the report and pasted it on facebook,so
they had to resort to begging Asiwaju as they needed his money to stay in
business”
“eventually Tinubu accepted tehm back as they worked for him
very well during his certificate scandal crisis days,he however told them that
he needed otitoju to head the newsroom revolution at TVC,he is also said to
want to restructure HITV and make them win back the juicy premiership football rights
as part of efforts to gingerTVC t the path of profitability “
“The news magazine is only selling just about 100 copies as
at press time as the low advertising and cash crunch era continues to bite
harder.
Tinubu ‘s hold on a lot of media organization such as
TVC,Radio,Continental.The News Magazine, The Nation Newspapers among others is
now a source of worry to real practitioners because he is known to be one of the
people with cases to answer in a very proper setting.
Only National Pilot,a pro Jonathan publication has written
on the reported sickness of Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu while the heavyweights
of the press has so far refused to do any investigations on the matter because
of personal interest rather than professional interests.
It would be recalled that during the recent launch of the book,the
Iconic footprints of a Diplomat by Chief Chukwuemeka Anyaoku, Former Governor
Tinubu was a noticeable absentee together with his wife, oluremi.
His representative and former commissioner of Health ,Dr
Lekan Pitan told the gathering that Chief Tinubu had to travel abroad for an
urgent surgery with his wife.
The unavailability of the All Progressive Congress
[APC]strongman has meant that he has not been able to contribute to national
discourse since the crisis that erupted within the rival Peoples Democratic
Party started recently.
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