A former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, has sensationally accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) of passing off his (Duke’s) photograph as “young Tinubu” in various documentaries to depict the childhood of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Duke made the allegation recently in Lagos, while interacting with ditors during a roundtable organised by the Front Fort Media Initiative and the MacArthur Foundation.
Apparently in a bid to clear the numerous controversies surrounding the background of Tinubu’s presidential candidacy, APC supporters and their media teams packaged various documentaries to polish the image of their presidential candidate.
The documentaries, which were televised on the TVC, and also uploaded on various YouTube channels, used a slew of photos and videos to narrate the candidate’s life history and political ascendancy.
And in the video, a particular monochrome photograph of a young boy in dark sunglasses, seated and with his fingers clasped, was cited as Bola Tinubu during his years as a young boy.
However, Duke said that the photo of the boy shown as ‘young Tinubu’ in the documentaries is him and not Bola Tinubu as televised. The former governor of Cross Rivers State said that he took the picture as a 12-year-old boy.
“The picture of the boy used as Bola Tinubu in all the documentaries is me. I am the boy in the picture, not Tinubu as they claimed in their documentaries. That photo was taken when I was 12 years old during my school years at the Federal Government College Sokoto, in Sokoto State,” Duke asserted.