Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday suspended his Senior Special Assistant on Print Media, Mr Wale Ajetunmobi.
The governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Gboyega Akosile, disclosed this in a statement to BusinessTodayNG.
The statement noted that “Ajetunmobi’s suspension comes on the heels of the misrepresentation of facts on his personal “X” account on a past incident.
The statement added that “the Governor wishes to state categorically that his administration frowns at any form of extra judicial punishment and will not be a part of any such action. That is not who we are. That is not our way.”
Misrepresentation of facts according to the statement referred to claim by the aide that majority of those involved in the burning of Television Continental, TVC, during the #EndSARS protest in 2020, had been hunted down and executed.
The aide’s tweet reads “The full story of people who burnt down TVC in 2020 will be told one day, with gory clips and images. One thing to note: majority of them have been hunted down and executed.
“One of them, a young boy trading in cooking gas around Ketu, was found with an AK-47 at the site. Even his neighbours were shocked. But the full gist is better saved for later.”
However on early hours of Tuesday morning Ajetunmobi tweeted that “This excerpt was quoted out of context and there were series of comments made under the same post, which better explained what was intended. Like I did further explained in the said tweet, no extra-judicial killing was insinuated. The word ‘executed’ was erroneously used and not intended in the context of that casual conversation.
“What was written in the entire conversation reflected personal opinion and not the position of any authority or the entity in which I work. The post and other comments had been taken down, even before this publication.”
