Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has narrated recent encountered he had with his wife, Dolapo, consequent upon a piece of fake news which wrongly presented him to the public.

Lamenting the situation, Osinbajo, while speaking at a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) symposium on fake news tagged, “Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News,” on Wednesday in Abuja, said a blog posted a picture depicting him posing with strippers.

Shedding light on the matter, Osinbajo said he had indeed taken a picture with the women at an entertainment event and were fully clothed, it was found out that the blogger who posted the photo where the women were not fully clothed and wrongly presented it to the public.

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The Vice-President, who observed that fake news is as old as communication must, said it must be effectively tackled as it could cause violence and destroy lives.

Osinbajo recounts the experience: “I have been one of the targets of fake news. It can also sometimes cause you marital peace. I got a call from my wife about three or four weeks ago and she said Yemi what are you doing with strippers and I said what do you mean by strippers? So, I read a story in a famous blog that said, ‘Osinbajo caught with strippers.’

“And there was a photograph of me sitting between two perfectly clothed ladies but underneath this picture, the same ladies were not wearing much.

“In fact-checking (I noticed that) the photographs with these two ladies at an entertainment event were taken when they were perfectly clothed but by the time the story was put out, it was as though I had taken a photo with them at the time they were not clothed at all.

“As it turns out, I wasn’t in the picture of where they were not wearing clothes but just the caption, the stories and all that gave the impression that here I was in the company of these ladies at a point when they were doing their business. I think the capacity of fake news to cause great harm is not in doubt at all.”


How Fake News Tricked My Wife To Thinking I Stood With Strippers — Osinbajo

Doesn't change the fact that the ladies are strippers and he took a picture with them ...clothed or not

Arbi because they were not stripped when he took the picture with them means they're not strippers ....

Baba took a pinshure with strippers chikena .....

Why wont ur wife be jelous when she has caught you multiple times with different stripers

Shebi na una start am
Till date apc cannot survive without fake news and propaganda. Iranu

Redoil:
Why wont ur wife be jelous when she has caught you multiple times with different stripers

What a SLOW kid!
Red oil.
Red eye

Fake news will set this country ablaze one day

post=74615572:

What a SLOW kid!
Red oil.
Red eye

i see you slow adult.
Continue singing and dancing for them

The kind of girls you go dey snap with, why your wife no vex
Pastor like you

OLUROCKS:
Doesn't change the fact that the ladies are strippers and he took a picture with them ...clothed or not

Arbi because they were not stripped when he took the picture with them means they're not strippers ....

Baba took a pinshure with strippers chikena .....

You guys and the way you reason. Strippers are not human beings ba?

Don't mind them,most bloggers wouldn't make heaven. An innocent picture you took,they turned it to another thing for them to gain traffic on their site.

Evablizin:
Don't mind them,most bloggers wouldn't make heaven. An innocent picture you took,they turned it to another thing for them to gain traffic on their site.

Don't mind those Naija bloggers o.
They've destroyed many lives.

....until we make laws to punish or jail them, fake news merchants abi nuisance go harm the society in many ways. We shall ensure that the next Assembly does something about these e-boko haramists.

APC is the main carrier of fake new.