2015:BUHARI,JONATHAN TEAR MEDIA APART

2015:BUHARI,JONATHAN TEAR MEDIA APART

THE NIGERIAN PRESS INSTEAD OF BEEN INDEPENDENT IN THE REPORTAGE OF NEWS HAVE BEEN LARGELY PARTISAN THUS HELPING TO CREATE MORE PROBLEMS THAN PROF ERRING SOLUTIONS

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

The Battle for who becomes Nigeria’s next President is currently tearing the Nigerian press apart.

Investigations by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria shows that a lot of the senior editors in the various media platforms were actually divided over who to support for the 2015 General Elections.

Mr Femi Adeshina, President of the highly influential beat association, The Guild of Editors was overhead clearly in a recent telephone conversation saying that he was rooting for a change in the polity and that even the incumbent President knows that.

Paedia Express Multimedia gathered in the conversation that there was going to be a media parley with President Goodluck Jonathan at Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja,Lagos and a source wanted to know if he was one of the organizers of the event but the latter denied any knowledge of the event.

Mr Adeshina had explained that because of his professional position on the matter as it concerns the election there was no way he would have been contacted to meet with Mr President.

In his submissions ,The Editor,Southern Operations,Bleuprint Newspapers,Mr Jerry Uwah lamented the total decay in the land while discussing exclusively with Paedia Express Multimedia.

He said that the people were a reflection of the kind of leaders that they have at the top and as such President Goodluck Jonathan was a clear reflection of the state of decay in the Nigerian society.

He took a swipe at monarchs who instead of questioning the six years of maladministration of the Jonathan regime had being queuing up behind  him because of monetary gifts .

He paid tributes to the disciplined standard exhibited by General Muhammadu Buhari in public service saying that this was what Nigeria as a nation required right now to save her from total anarchy.

He also praised General Mahammadu Magoro now a serving Senator for believing in General Buhari despite been outnumbered by coupists in 1985.

This reporter was almost thrown out of the newsroom at the New Telegraph Newspapers by a Niger Deltan editor   who got angry that because the Peoples Democratic Party [P.D.P.] and the All Progressives Congress[A.P.C.]were been described as same and therefore should not be voted for by Nigerians.

The fuming editor pointed out that nobody should pass any anti-Jonathan comment in there newsroom otherwise the person will be thrown out.

In a related issue, a reporter who was formally on the books of The Vanguard Newspapers lashed out at the editorials of his former employers saying that all the senior editors were all on the payroll of Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress.

He lamented that there was no  negative reports published about the politician by any of there reporters that will ever get published as it will even make the editor that reported the matter to Tinubu richer for aiding and abetting censorship.

HOW THEY HAVE SUPPORTED THE CANDIDATES SO FAR

JONATHAN MEDIA

1]Nigerian Pilot

2]Nigerian News world

3]The Union

4]African Independent Television

5]Ray Power

6]Silverbird Television

7]Nigerian Television Authority

8]Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria

9]Voice of Nigera

10]Thisday

11]The Guardian

12] Newswatch times

13]The Cable

14]The source

15]Daily Times

BUHARI MEDIA

1]The Nation

2]Television Continental

3]Radio Continental

4]The News

5]P.M.News

6]The Punch

7]The Sun

8]Daily Trust

9]Leadership

10]Peoples Daily

11]Sahara Reporters

12]Premium Times

13]Blueprint

14]Channels Television

15]Lagos Television

16]Radio Lagos

17]M.I.T.V

18]Star F.M.

19]Vanguard

INDEPENDENT MEDIA

1]Paedia Express Multimedia

2]New Telegraph

3]Galaxy Television

4]Hallmark

UNKNOWN MEDIA CATEGORY

1]Tell News magazine.