The Leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has distanced himself from a Twitter account bearing his name.
National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba sociocultural organisation, Jare Ajayi disclosed this in a Sunday statement.
The statement was released after the Twitter account cited supposed reasons for Adebanjo’s endorsement of the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Some traditional and online media organisations (not The Herald) had quoted from the Twitter handle.
He explained that some mischievous persons created the social media account to achieve nefarious objectives, as could be gleaned from one of the posts purporting to explain why Adebanjo is supporting Mr. Peter Obi in the forthcoming presidential election in 2023 instead of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Yoruba man.
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According to Ajayi, Adebanjo’s support of Obi is “more fundamental and constitutional than the reason being purported in the spurious social media account”.
“It is hereby being clearly stated that Chief Adebanjo has no social media account of any sort, be it Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
“Whenever he has anything to say to the public, he does so directly by addressing the press, through an interview or a press statement. He also addresses the public through the Secretary-General or the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere,” Ajayi said.
“In view of the fact that Adebanjo usually speaks directly with the press, both print and electronic, any information purporting to have emanated from the said ‘social media account’ should be totally disregarded because he has no such account in any form or manner.
“Since the elder statesman does not have any social media accounts, whatever is found in the Twitter account could not be said to have come from him. He has no such accounts as he speaks directly to the media or causes his views to be channelled to the public via the organisation’s Secretary General or the National Publicity Secretary.
“The media and members of the public are hereby enjoined to disregard any statement purported to have been sourced from Pa Adebanjo’s social media account because he has none,” the statement further read.