In late 2018, as Managing Editor of an online newspaper, I transferred money to my reporters so they could cover a PDP governorship primary. I labelled the transaction “PDP primary”.
Not long after, my bank called me. They’d flagged the transaction & wanted me to explain it.
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Not long after, my bank called me. They’d flagged the transaction & wanted me to explain it.
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Meanwhile, weeks earlier, when I transferred money to my team for an APC primary and similarly labelled it “APC primary”, my bank didn’t call me.
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2/6
That ‘PDP call’ ahead of the 2019 elections was the only time in eight years that my bank ever called me to explain a transaction!
Now, I leave you to make your conclusions.
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Now, I leave you to make your conclusions.
3/6
Some of us screaming against the extrajudicial freezing of the accounts of #EndSARS supporters — a court order was only obtained weeks after — by the CBN do it because...
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4/6
...we have firsthand experience of this government’s indiscriminate and capricious wielding of the instrumentality of public office to muffle dissenting voices.
Actions like this have absolutely no place in a democracy, we have to keep reminding this administration.
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Actions like this have absolutely no place in a democracy, we have to keep reminding this administration.
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PS: In case you’re new here, I am no fan of either PDP or APC. Birds of a feather is what they are.
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