Punch is forgiven its error on Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq

Date: 2023-11-09

A report in the Punch newspaper listing Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq among some purported absentee Governors is a faux pas, which we deem to be one of those moments in human imperfections.

This is particularly so because the report merely parroted a statement made by an opposition party without any attempt, even by the account of the story, to verify the claim. We do not believe that the Punch newspaper or any credible medium should have fallen for such in this age of fake news and disinformation.

A check of some photographs of activities of the Governor in the last seven days before the misleading report was published would have condemned such a copy to the bin. Apart from the earlier low-key official activities of the Governor in the last one week, the Governor joined the Emir of Ilorin Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari to host the Sultan of Sokoto His Eminence Sa'd Abubakar III in Ilorin, the state capital, last Friday, November 3. The Govemor is currently in Ilorin today, November 8.

This has been the trend of his activities despite his added responsibility as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), which expectedly require that he joggles his time as he takes on more national roles like the tasks of leading his 36 other colleagues.

Despite his huge schedules, the Governor, for the record, has never at any time travelled outside of Ilorin for two weeks at a stretch between 2019 and now. Never.

We hope that the Punch will henceforth do independent checks of any claims by opposition elements and not adopt the same as its own report without due diligence that it is known for.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Irepodun     Ganiyu Abolarin     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Orisa Bridge     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Demola Banu     Gbemisola Saraki     Bisi Kristien     AbdulRauf Keji     Jaigbade Alao     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Oba Of Jebba     NITDA     Charcoal     Aso Ofi     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Wahab Issa     Ibrahim Jawondo     Ali Ahmad     Alabi Lawal     Dorcas Afeniforo     Oniwasi Agbaye     KWASEIC     Olabode George Towoju     Mujtabah Bature     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Ile Arugbo     2023 Elections     Earlyon Technologies     Owu Fall     Saba Mamman Daniel     Olatunde Olukoya     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Ike Ekweremadu     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Sidikat Alaya     Saka Saadu     Bisi Oyeleke     Offa     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Nnazua     Danladi     Abubakar Usman Jos     Raheem Adaramaja     Ghali Muhammed     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Kolo     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Ilesha-Baruba     Boko Haram     Ahmed Alhasssan     Mashood Dauda     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Toyin Sanusi     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Yusuf Ali     UNIFEMGA     Ahman Patigi     Wale Oladepo     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Olaoye B. Felix     Jamiu Oyawoye     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Sam Onile     Bolakale Saka     Ademola Kiyesola     Dele Momodu     Saidu Yaro Musa     IHS     Young Progressives Party     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Amusa Bello     Olawuyi     Muhammed Aliyu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Raliat AbdulRazaq     Haliru Dantoro     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Zara Umar     Peter Amogbonjaye     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Lukman Adeloyin     Olabode Towoju     Arca Santa     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Sa\'adu Salau     Ahmed Bayero     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Isin     Mufti Of Ilorin     ASUU     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Idowu Laro     Aminat Ahmed     Adedipe     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Issa Oloruntogun     Wahab Issa     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Abdulrosheed Okiki     SGBN     Zainab Abass     Bayo Lawal     Lanre Badmus     Curfew     Lanre Jimoh     Logun     National Pilot     Temitope Ogunbanke     Toyin Abdullahi     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Kwara State Fire Service     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     JMK Construction Company Limited     Toyin Falola     Hassanat Bello     Ajeigbe     Oko Erin     Revenue Court     Sardauna Of Ilorin     NNPP     Oloyede     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Sarkin Malamai     Ballah     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Alanamu     African Democratic Congress     Kemi Adeosun     Mukhtar Shagaya     Iliasu     Binta Sulyman     Sunset Workers     Ajike People Support Centre     Titus Ashaolu     Playing Host     Nigerian Medical Association     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     KWACOBPA     Modibo Kawu     Oyedepo     Olokoba     Riskat Opakunle     Adijat Adebiyi     Cassava Growers\' Association