ARISE NEWS PRESIDENTIAL TOWNHALL MEETING: ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU WON’T ATTEND

Our attention has been drawn to an advertisement by Arise News in connection with a Town Hall meeting scheduled for 4 December.

We are surprised that the TV station listed our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a participant, when there was no prior consultation with him and his aides and no consent of the candidate obtained for the advertisement.

We deem this as professionally wrong and reckless.

No media organisation should arrogate to itself the right to railroad any candidate to fit into its own agenda.

As we said in an earlier statement, the busy and hectic campaign schedules of Asiwaju Tinubu will not permit him to honour all invitations from different radio and TV stations for debate and or Town Hall meetings; hence, our decision for him not to start with one media organisation and later ignore the others.

In the absence of a unified and mutually acceptable platform for all parties and all candidates, our candidate has been speaking directly to Nigerians, since President Muhammadu Buhari launched Tinubu’s Action Plan for a Better Nigeria.

Till date, over seven town hall meetings, with strategic sectors, have been held across the geopolitical zones, where the candidate and his running mate have spoken about their programmes.

These direct engagements will continue before the election on 25 February, 2023.

We; therefore, urge Arise News to stop using our candidate’s name or portrait in its advertisement, forthwith.

Bayo Onanuga
Director, Media & Publicity
November 25, 2022

Fear fear

Even if TVC or Radio Continental organises a media interaction for the shaky and peeing in panties emilokan, he will never attend.

It is extremely irresponsible of AriseTv to make such announcement without any consultation or commitment whatsoever with the Bola Tinubu campaign council. The way that tv station is throwing professionalism to the wind is really troubling.

AriseTv has adopted Peter Obi and Atiku as their candidates. They should organize their debates and town hall meeting between these two candidates. Tinubu will not attend any debate, town hall meeting or interview conducted by the biased and partisan AriseTv station. They should stop using Tinubu’s name to chase clout.