{"id":1950,"date":"2019-02-21T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2019-08-26T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:08:34","slug":"nigerias-vice-president-osinbajo-did-not-resign-his-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/nigerias-vice-president-osinbajo-did-not-resign-his-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Vice President, Osinbajo, DID NOT Resign His Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLAIM:<\/strong> A Twitter trend has started saying that the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has resigned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EVIDENCE:\u00a0<\/strong>Prof.\u00a0Osinbajo,\u00a0himself,\u00a0took\u00a0to\u00a0his\u00a0Twitter\u00a0page\u00a0to disprove this claim, calling it &#8220;misleading\/fake news&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-vivid-red-background-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CONCLUSION: <\/strong>FALSE<br><\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FULL\u00a0TEXT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Thursday morning of the 21st of February 2019, the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, was trending on Twitter. Prof.\u00a0Osinbajo is the running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari under the flag of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential election rescheduled for this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trending news on Twitter was that Mr Osinbajo resigned his position to protest his alleged exclusion from a security meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vice president, having noticed the rumour immediately took to his verified Twitter handle to debunk it.<br \/>&#8220;<em>Misleading\/FAKE news is on the rise especially in this season when Nigerians will make a choice about who will govern them for the next four years. I have not resigned! I remain committed to the service of the Nigerian people under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari<\/em>\u201d, he wrote on Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dubawa understands that this is election period and there\u00a0is danger in posting or reposting information online without verifying them. Even if you retract that tweet or online post, the message has already been sent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential election is only two days away and false\/politically motivated messages are expected to be on the rise. Just as it is your inalienable right to express yourself online, it is also your obligation to ensure that your \u2018expression\u2019 does not cause the loss of another\u2019s life or future!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CONCLUSION:\u00a0<\/strong>Based on the swift reaction of Mr Osinbajo, Dubawa can authoritatively report that the Vice President\u00a0<strong>did not<\/strong>\u00a0resign his position.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Misleading\/FAKE news is on the rise especially in this season when Nigerians will make a choice about who will govern them for the next four years.<br><br>I have not resigned!<br><br>I remain committed to the service of the Nigerian people under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjMj5hUtUT\">pic.twitter.com\/DjMj5hUtUT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfOsinbajo\/status\/1098524679189483521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 21, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLAIM: A Twitter trend has started saying that the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has resigned EVIDENCE:\u00a0Prof.\u00a0Osinbajo,\u00a0himself,\u00a0took\u00a0to\u00a0his\u00a0Twitter\u00a0page\u00a0to disprove this claim, calling it &#8220;misleading\/fake news&#8221; CONCLUSION: FALSE FULL\u00a0TEXT: Today, Thursday morning of the 21st of February 2019, the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, was trending on Twitter. Prof.\u00a0Osinbajo is the running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari under the flag of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential election rescheduled for this Saturday. The trending news on Twitter was that Mr Osinbajo resigned his position to protest his alleged exclusion from a security meeting on Wednesday. The vice president, having noticed the rumour immediately took to his verified Twitter handle to debunk it.&#8220;Misleading\/FAKE news is on the rise especially in this season when Nigerians will make a choice about who will govern them for the next four years. I have not resigned! I remain committed to the service of the Nigerian people under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari\u201d, he wrote on Twitter.\u00a0 Dubawa understands that this is election period and there\u00a0is danger in posting or reposting information online without verifying them. Even if you retract that tweet or online post, the message has already been sent. The presidential election is only two days away and false\/politically motivated messages are expected to be on the rise. Just as it is your inalienable right to express yourself online, it is also your obligation to ensure that your \u2018expression\u2019 does not cause the loss of another\u2019s life or future! CONCLUSION:\u00a0Based on the swift reaction of Mr Osinbajo, Dubawa can authoritatively report that the Vice President\u00a0did not\u00a0resign his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[347],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[877],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","tag-featured"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-vs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":877,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"adejumokabir","display_name":"Adejumo Kabir","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ebf7a14094ac13bdfbd74c154fc30ad37b33c9250bbfb98ef356e901521ffdd?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Kabir","first_name":"Adejumo","job_title":"","description":"<strong>Adejumo Kabir<\/strong> is a student journalist at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. 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