The popular platform known for promoting interesting and factual information, Uberfacts has clarified that it did not receive any form of compensation for sharing information about the legal problems Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had with narcotics trafficking.
In a tweet posted on Monday evening, UberFacts denied receiving any payment, either in cash or kind, to share details of Mr. Tinubu’s $460,000 forfeiture of illicit revenue from cocaine deals with the American government.
The platform also attached documents from United States court records, which are public records, to further support its statement.
UberFacts’ tweet was in response to accusations from trolls and Mr. Tinubu’s supporters, who had attacked the platform, claiming that it was spreading propaganda and that it was being paid to do so.
However, UberFacts reiterated that it was simply sharing publicly available information, News About Nigeria reports.
On Monday night, UberFacts had tweeted that “Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court found the income came from heroin trafficking” in 1993.
The platform also shared an article by Peoples Gazette that provided further details about Mr. Tinubu’s drug dealing and money-laundering encounter.
Tinubu’s supporters were livid by the circulation of their principal’s legal battles, but they did not contest the authenticity of the documents Uberfacts had shared.
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Bayo Onanuga, media aide to Tinubu said the information is false.
He described Uberfacts as a Twitter account notorious for random tweeting of falsehood and ” the most unimportant things you’ll never need to know”.
” Only in Nigeria will the junk site be stamped with some semblance of authenticity or conferred with a badge of authority, when many of its facts had long been dismissed as unreliable”.
