Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has narrated how a fake report about
him frolicking with strippers nearly caused a rift between him and his
wife, Dolapo.
Osinabjo disclosed this while speaking at a BBC symposium on fake
news tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News’, in Abuja yesterday
Wednesday January 9th.
Lending credence to the fact that fake news can cause a lot of
problems, Osinbajo said a blogger had published a photo of him with two
women and claimed he was hanging out with strippers. However, a check on
the photo after his wife had called him to talk about the photo, showed
it had been edited.
“I have been one of the targets of fake news. It can also sometimes
cause you marital peace. I got a call from my wife about three or four
weeks ago and she said Yemi what are you doing with strippers and I said
what do you mean by strippers? So, I read a story in a famous blog that
said, ‘Osinbajo caught with strippers’.“And there was a photograph of me sitting between two perfectly
clothed ladies but underneath this picture, the same ladies were not
wearing much.“In fact-checking (I noticed that) the photographs with these two
ladies at an entertainment event were taken when they were perfectly
clothed but by the time the story was put out, it was as though I had
taken a photo with them at the time they were not clothed at all. As it
turns out, I wasn’t in the picture of where they were not wearing
clothes but just the caption, the stories and all that gave the
impression that here I was in the company of these ladies at a point
when they were doing their business. I think the capacity of fake news
to cause great harm is not in doubt at all.” he said