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A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday debunked reports that he recently purchased a new airplane.

Mr. Tinubu, who ruled as Lagos State governor between 1999 and 2007, described the report as false, stressing that the publication was partial and unfair in the said report.

THISDAY newspaper had in its July 23 edition said that the former Lagos governor recently purchased a new airplane.

But Mr. Tinubu, in a statement released on Tuesday and signed by his Special Assistant, Ademola Oshodi, said the story was false and the newspaper partisan.

“The THISDAY story of Sunday, July 23, 2017 claiming Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has recently purchased a new airplane is symptomatic of what happens when a publication divorces itself from any pretence of objective and impartial reportage,” the statement said.

“This is what happens when a newspaper becomes a mercenary tool for partisan designs. THISDAY has a partisan axe to grind and it seeks to grind that axe against someone like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because that is what the paymasters of THISDAY demand of it.

“So eager to be seen as loyal to the whims of its paymasters, THISDAY stands disloyal to the very truth it professes to publish. Rather than practise journalism, this publication now specialises in peddling rumour and manufacturing fake scandal. One of the paper’s favourite excursions into fiction is to publish any and all things false about Bola Tinubu. Why THISDAY has such animus against Tinubu only the paper can answer. That such irrational hatred exists cannot be controverted.”

The statement also faulted the pictures attached to the publication, saying they were doctored and not genuine.

“Tinubu has not purchased a new plane. He is currently using the same plane he has used for over a decade now,” Mr. Oshodi said.

He also explained further that the only plane the APC leader owns is the same plane that was used during the general elections of 2011 and 2015, which aided the APC campaign efforts and eventual victory at the polls.

Mr. Oshodi who claimed that the report was targeted at embarrassing Mr. Tinubu, noted that if an investigation had been carried out before the publication, the ‘fake’ report would have been discarded.

“But these merchants of fake news are more interested in attacking perceived enemies than in enlightening the public as should be the call of a newspaper,” the statement said.

The statement argued that if authors of the publication had checked the photograph they published, they would have noticed that the pictures revealed spaces with different interiors.

“They would have easily seen that (Mr.) Tinubu’s picture was superimposed to a space he has not been,” Mr. Oshodi said, adding that the controversial report was “sensational, shoddy and false.”
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/238939-tinubu-denies-purchasing-new-plane.html

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dipznano:

Bares jokes brah

"He is currently using the same plane he has used for over a decade now,"

Wow. Poor guy. Tinubu is suffering oo. One plane for 10 years. What a sacrifice.

jerseyboy:
Wow. Poor guy. Tinubu is suffering oo. One plane for 12 years. What a sacrifice.

He deserves a second one,what kind of injustice is this?Lets all pitch in to get him a brand new private jet

1 Private jet as former gov...u must have earned more than our senators...

Tinubu VP-CBT Falcon Dassault 900DX Jet
Current price range -$34-$43.3 million dollars
https://www.aircraftcompare.com/helicopter-airplane/Dassault-Falcon-900DX/154
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Falcon_900

no wahala

tanjesl50:
1 is even too much

I agree,when majority of people are living in poverty.Nigeria leaders display obscene opulence that is not seen displayed by politicians in USA,Canada or UK.

One of the shameless thieves the cesspit called Nigeria has ever produced.

DerideGull:
One of the shameless thieves the cesspit called Nigeria has ever produced.

No court has found him guilty in Nigeria, so how you call him a thief. Tinubu is one of the saints we have in the country alongside Ibori,IBB,OBJ,Abdusalami,Atiku,Saraki etc

One in your name others in the name of your wife and children. APC wayo

BUHARItesticles:
One in your name others in the name of your wife and children. APC wayo

Tinubu is too smart to put any property under his name. His current private jet is registered under a shell corporation Clumber Consultancy SA.
https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/VP-CBT/620799

DutchBrah:
No court has found him guilty in Nigeria, so how you call him a thief. Tinubu is one of the saints we have in the country alongside Ibori,IBB,OBJ,Abdusalami,Atiku,Saraki etc

I'm enjoying your sense of sarcasm.

GreyLaw:
I'm enjoying your sense of sarcasm.

They are all saints in Nigeria,wasnt James Ibori found not guilty on 180 charges for corruption in Nigeria. Before the CCT tribunal Tinubu and Saraki were also found not guilty.They are saints, all there private jets,properties and foreign accounts in UK,Panama,Dubai and USA, they made through hardwork.

Thiefnubuu, the Cocaine dealer. You shall be in hell fire soon

thiefnibu

DutchBrah:
No court has found him guilty in Nigeria, so how you call him a thief. Tinubu is one of the saints we have in the country alongside Ibori,IBB,OBJ,Abdusalami,Atiku,Saraki etc

nice one

nototribalist:
nice one

Even Abacha is a saint. Ask Buhari,he is on record saying Abacha never stole any money and gave him a clean bill in Kano after the rememberance prayers marking 10 years of the death of Abacha in June 9,2008

All Nigerian politicians deserve sainthood from the Vatican.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200806090008.html

Jagaban of africa needs to upgrade that jet. This guy owns Lagos.

Chubhie:
Jagaban of africa needs to upgrade that jet. This guy owns Lagos.

What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul.
MARK 8:36 KJV

DutchBrah:
What does it profit a amn to gain the world and lose his soul. MARK 8:36 KJV

Do you doubt the possibility of gaining the world yet advancing the soul?

Chubhie:
Do you doubt the possibility of gaining the world yet advancing the soul?

I don't doubt it,especially if you made your riches through honest means. However, I doubt that is the situation in this case.

Tinubu made all his money during his tenure at Mobil so he can even afford 30 private jet sef and all of Abuja

Tinubu is poorer than Dieziani

RZArecta:
Tinubu made all his money during his tenure at Mobil so he can even afford 30 private jet sef and all of Abuja

Tinubu is poorer than Dieziani

Tinubu was never on the board of Mobil.Why don't all the current Management staff of Mobil have private jets.Do you know the cost of a Falcon 900 DX private jet?It's price range is between $33-43 million dollars.Mobil Nigeria MD can't even afford it.

Ifeanyi4491:
thiefnibu

Now I know why people call him this name.

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