Tinubu Reacts To Reports That He Purchased A New Plane

  Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu has distanced himself from reports that he recently purchased a new airplane. The National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress 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 Tinubu, in a statement released on Tuesday, August 1 and signed by his Special Assistant, Ademola Oshodi, said the story was false and the newspaper partisan. But Tinubu, in a statement released on Tuesday, August 1 and signed by his Special Assistant, Ademola Oshodi, said the story was false and the newspaper partisan.

“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.