Time's Reporter Under Fire Over Feature Naming Tinubu Among 2023 Most Influential People
- Time Magazine writer has faced heavy criticism over her description of Bola Tinubu in the 2023 issue of the magazine’s 100 most influential people
- In the American magazine's 2023 issue, Tinubu was listed in the category of influential “leaders” alongside US President, Joe Biden
- Reacting, Nigerians dragged the journalist on all her social media pages, including Twitter and Linkedin, over her professional opinion of the 2023 general elections
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Astha Rajvanshi, a Times reporter, has come under heavy attack from Nigerians for writing the citation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, in the 2023 issue of the magazine’s 100 most influential people.
In the report, Rajvanshi described Tinubu as a “longtime political power broker”, who has had nearly two decades to prepare for the presidential election, The Cable report confirmed.
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She said the former governor of Lagos is “aware of his inheritance” in the form of a “litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy”.
Rajvanshi locks her Twitter account
But at the release of the magazine’s issue on Thursday, April 13, several Nigerians, particularly supporters of Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), known as Obidients, subjected the journalist to intense criticism.
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With a deluge of vitriol on her timeline, Rajvanshi @astharajvanshi resorted to locking her account on Twitter, but the battering continued on her Facebook and Instagram pages.
What Tinubu will do when he returns from Europe, APC reveals
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the president-elect, Tinubu, will swing into action immediately after he returns from Europe.
The party also said the president-elect, who has been officially out of Nigeria since March 22, will soon return ahead of his inauguration on Monday, May 29, 2023.
APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, made this disclosure on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, April 13.
Why I defeated Peter Obi, Tinubu reveals
The president-elect, Tinubu, revealed why Peter Obi of the Labour Party recorded a major loss in the Saturday, February 25 presidential election.
Tinubu challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, in a preliminary objection he filed alongside his vice-president-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, maintained that Obi was bereft of the locus standing to file a petition to challenge his election victory.
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