In a statement which was released on Twitter by the Reportera News Nigeria on 12 June 2023.
According to their statements, they said;
“The management of Reportera Media Resources, owners of Reportera News Nigeria has watched with dismay the many occurrences in Nigeria within the last few months, especially the activities prior, during, and after the presidential elections, and it has come to a point that we take a definitive stand in the scheme of things as a media house that preaches and advocates for the tenets of democracy.
Reportera News Nigeria was part of the accredited local observers of the 2023 presidential election and our reporters and agents where spread across various parts of the country to get a first hand incident report on the electioneering process. The eventual outcome of the election was a shocker to us and other reputable media houses locally and internationally as INEC went against its own laws, despite overwhelming evidence showing that the election was flawed, to declare the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the election and was subsequently sworn in as Nigeria’s president on the 29th May 2023.
We are an organization with integrity and we will be doing ourselves and Nigerians a great disservice if we don’t tell the truth and the truth is very clear; Ahmed Bola Tinubu did not win the 2023 presidential election thus it will be an aberration of the constitution to address him as the president and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Feb 25th presidential election is currently being challenged in court by two parties and until a final verdict is passed by the Nigeria Supreme Court, we will NOT be addressing Bola Ahmed Tinubu or any individual as ‘Mr President’ or ‘President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’. Therefore, whilst the INEC declared president, Mr Tinubu occupies this exalted position in the mean time, we shall accord every respect due the office of the president but shall refrain from addressing him as ‘President Tinubu’, not until the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirms his position.
Signed:
Management
