Afrigather A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode says Occasions Journal’s Journalist, Astha Rajvanshi locked her Twitter account over hate feedback by supporters of Peter Obi.
He wrote in a tweet, “Merely for itemizing Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as being amongst the highest 100 strongest folks on this planet, TIME journal’s Astha has needed to lock her Twitter account due to the hate speech and trolling that the followers of Peter Obi have subjected to her.”
Recall that Time’s Journal had earlier listed President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu amongst its 100 Most Influential Individuals within the World.
Rajvanshi comes beneath fireplace for naming Tinubu among the many 2023 most influential folks
Time reporter, Astha Rajvanshi has been closely criticised for writing the quotation of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, within the 2023 situation of the journal’s 100 most influential folks. The criticisms had been sponsored by a number of Nigerians, notably supporters of Peter Obi of the Labour Get together (LP), generally known as Obidients.
Whereas some accused Rajvanshi of laundering the picture of Tinubu, others referred to as her “the promoter of a person that rendered households hopeless as a consequence of heroin trafficking”.
Within the report, she described the President-elect as a “longtime political energy dealer”, who spent virtually 20 years getting ready for the presidential election. She additionally famous that the previous governor of Lagos is “conscious of his inheritance” within the type of a “litany of crises in a fractured nation, together with deep-rooted corruption, non secular insurgencies, and shortages of money, gasoline, and energy in a crumbling financial system”.
Supporters of Obi and Tinubu have been at loggerheads for the reason that Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), because the winner of the presidential election on the first of March, 2023.
