Some supporters of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have created a phony Facebook account, passing it off as the original PREMIUM TIMES Facebook page, in what appears a desperate move to mislead the public.

The page calls itself Premium Times News and uses the logo and other creatives and styles belonging to PREMIUM TIMES. Through the page, the group peddles falsehoods and dishes out dangerous propaganda, circulating them widely as if they emanated from PREMIUM TIMES reporting.At times, the group hires some blogs and websites to help it republish its falsehoods on their platforms.

The page claims its administrators operate out of 38 Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port Harcourt, the same address as that of the Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress. We later found this to be a decoy.

The page started out as a Nyesom Wike support group. The page’s permanent URL (https://www.facebook.com/nyesomwike2015/) clearly shows this. But shortly after the elections, it changed its identity to Premium Times News, cloning the PREMIUM TIMES brand.

The administrators of the page also stole and used PREMIUM TIMES’ branding elements in a bid to deceive the public and pass down its highly biased contents as though it was produced in line with PREMIUM TIMES’ professional standard.

On Tuesday, a website, The Trent Online, circulated a concocted news item it sourced from the fake Facebook page, attributing it to PREMIUM TIMES.

The report purportedly quoted Justice Muazu Pindiga, a judge who served on the Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, as claiming that he was offered bribe, threatened by the State Security Service before he was eventually removed from the tribunal.

The story was apparently manufactured to cast aspersion on the judgment of the Rivers Tribunal which gave judgment on Saturday sacking Governor Wike and ordering a rerun in the state.

PREMIUM TIMES did not publish any such story and the Trent did not contact our paper before running a piece it sourced from the fake Facebook page.

On Wednesday, the website left an editor’s note below the fake story saying it had since determined that the Facebook page from which it sourced the report does not belong to PREMIUM TIMES.

It however failed to pull down the story, saying doing so would leave its readers encountering “an error message if they attempted to reference this report”.

Another website, Elombah.com had earlier published the same phony report. But it has since edited its post, removing PREMIUM TIMES as the source of its story.

PREMIUM TIMES Managing Editor, Musikilu Mojeed, said his organization became aware of the fake Facebook page some weeks ago.

“Our head of digital strategy immediately filed a formal report to Facebook but Facebook has failed to pull the page down since then, letting the mischief makers to continue spreading their falsehoods, using our identity,” Mr. Mojeed said.

“PREMIUM TIMES has only two Facebook pages. The first is the English version – www.facebook.com/premiumtimes – and the Hausa version – www.facebook.com/premiumtimeshausa.”

“Any other page claiming to belong to the PREMIUM TIMES brand is a pirated copy and should be disregarded.”

When contacted on the matter, Governor Wike’s media assistant, Sam Nwakaudu, said, “This your blackmail is getting out of hand.” He immediately terminated the call.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192283-gov-nyesom-wikes-loyalists-open-fake-premium-times-facebook-page-for-deception-propaganda.html

Wike...... You see your life.... Why is everything about you Fraudulent....... You are finished.

PDP, Wike and their supporters are all criminals, so no surprises here.

Desperation

justice must prevail.

PDP don suffer.

These people deliberately murdered sleep on the 11th of Apr. 2015, and they've since then known no rest.

IamPatriotic:
These people deliberately murdered sleep on the 11th of Apr. 2015, and they've since then known no rest.

I dey tel you.... They sowed the wind and they are now reaping the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7

But I thought Nyesom Wike is the peoples choice and Rivers state is 100% PDP?

Wike the desperador! How could that have saved him from being sacked. Nyesom- naive and nut Wike- weak and wicked

LordMecuzy:
But I thought Nyesom Wike is the peoples choice and Rivers state is 100% PDP?

That ship sailed since, the IGG of Rivers folks after jona's loss is gone & his clampdown on the biafra warlords didn't do him any good.

Wicked wike's main problem now is that he knows what will definitely happen to him once his immunity is out of the way.. He knows hades is going to rain down on me.


Forgery is small to a thief & a killer!!!

Sau godiya munafirchi dodo

WikeD the desperate clown

Cc: lalasticlala

I have said it and would repeat it again- trent, savinggrace, breakingtimes, guardiannewsusa, and hopefornigeria are totally useless PDP propaganda sites only visited by Wailers. Now they've gone as far as duplicating PT. Just imagine the shame.

Rotflmao.

Wike has got no lifeline in this. He's going down. So also is Trentonline.

Front page

lalasticlala..... Pls do the needful nah

Nice investigative reporting by Premium Times to protect their brand.

kahal29:

On Tuesday, a website, The Trent Online, circulated a concocted news item it sourced from the fake Facebook page, attributing it to PREMIUM TIMES.

The report purportedly quoted Justice Muazu Pindiga, a judge who served on the Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, as claiming that he was offered bribe, threatened by the State Security Service before he was eventually removed from the tribunal.

Let's hope Seun and the mods are guided by this report, so any propaganda from 'trentonline' and its sister publications will be henceforth banned from the front page.

Desperate 'high tension' Wike has been relegated to the Port Harcourt museum of political history.

Vote Dakuku Peterside for peaceful and responsible governance.

Interesting!

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https://www.nairaland.com/2517785/save-light-great-fighter

Ok

To every beginning, there must be an end. Wike's tenure is coming to an end.

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So I ordered a meal of about N1,500 (an amount a gentleman can
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While eating and waiting, I noticed a man in a flowing apparel
(Agbada) walk in.
About 50 seconds later, a man went to this man and told him he
lost his wife and needed money to keep body and soul together.
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(Wow! I was shocked)
Another man went in crying and saying he lost his father and
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a million naira cheque too!
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receive my own N1 million.
I summoned a little bit of courage and went to where the rich man
was sitting.
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(I was crying hysterically)
While I was expecting this man to open his briefcase and give me a
cheque too, I suddenly heard a noise from behind me,
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FILM."
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Double wahala for dead body

Wow

PDP bigots.. What cant they do?