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2023: Tinubu rejects Arise TV’s invitation to town hall meeting

by ebor cletus ralph jr

Arise Television has come under fire from the All Progressives Congress Campaign Council for unexpectedly inviting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the party’s flag bearer, to the presidential town hall meeting.

In a statement released on Friday in Abuja, the council’s director of media and publicity, Bayo Onanuga, urged the television station to stop using Tinubu’s name or image on the advertisement for the town hall meeting scheduled for December 4.
The previous Lagos State had received numerous criticisms for avoiding pre-election events.

Onanuga, who called the Arise Television advertisement irresponsible and unethical, claimed that the APC candidate’s hectic schedule would prevent him from accepting all invites.

The statement read: “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 all parties and all candidates platform, our candidate has been speaking directly to Nigerians, since President Muhammadu Buhari launched Tinubu’s Action Plan for a Better Nigeria.

“To 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.”

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