V P Osinbajo’s Security Harass Journalists During Consultation Visit To Cross River
Writers were on Thursday mauled by security subtleties appended to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, during his official interview visit to Cross River State.
Cross River Watch reports that the writers, numbering north of 15 were bothered and driven out of the setting.
As per the report, an immense darker looking man who could undoubtedly pass for one of the anchors of the occasion got the amplifier and said brutally: “Assuming you’re a columnist; whether from the print or electronic media, withdraw, the Vice President will converse with you outside, excuse us and remain outside.
“It is completely a private gathering with the Vice President.”
He, be that as it may, added: “I will ensure he converses with you when he is finished.”
The writers needed to move out of the corridor to the gathering of the inn bearing in mind the end goal of getting an opportunity for a meeting with the VP.
In any case, not long after, his security subtleties came in their numbers, bugged and pursued the men of the Fourth Estate of the Realm out of the premises.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, additionally purportedly requested columnists out of the structure expressing writers from the state are not required on the grounds that the Vice President accompanied his escort from the State House Press Corps, Abuja.
The episode comes two days after the World Press Freedom Day festivity pointed toward safeguarding columnists in the line of obligation.
SaharaReporters prior on Thursday revealed how Osinbajo disseminated $300 each to around 400 official designation delegates in Adamawa and Taraba during his visit to the states on Wednesday.
The Vice President supposedly changed from giving out cash in naira to hard money to keep steady over the opposition to purchase delegates.At gatherings held in secret in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital and Yola, in Adamawa State on Wednesday, Osinbajo gave each agent to the APC National Convention US $300.
“I was given an envelope containing $300 not long after the Vice President left the lobby,” a representative had told SaharaReporters while showing the cash.
He was said to have begged the agents to incline toward his office over all others in the race, contending that he had more involvement with administration at home and on the worldwide stage than every one of his rivals.
SaharaReporters additionally gave an account of April 22, 2022, that a few official agents of the decision All Progressives Congress in the South-West last Friday returned home with N250,000 each subsequent to going to a gathering with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Ibadan, Oyo State.