A video circulated on social media, mainly Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, in which former President Olusegun Obasanjo described the federal government as “ineffective and incompetent” and urged Nigerians not to reinforce failure.
Netizens who watched the video and shared it on various media said that the former president was condemning the Bola Tinubu-led administration.
ORIGIN
WITHIN NIGERIA learned that the viral video of Obasanjo describing the FG as ineffective and incompetent, was posted by Nigerian famous blogger Tunde Ednut on his Instagram account, which has over five million followers.
The Instagram post with a photo of President Tinubu placed as the background in the clip, labeled ‘Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!’, received over 2,000 reposts, 29,000 likes, 2,800 comments, and 1,700 shares.
@ejykmykel1, an X user, also tweeted the video with the caption “H.E Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo. The post “Well spoken 👏 APC will not like this” received over 2,900 reposts, 160 quotations, 4,900 likes, and 855 bookmarks.
VERIFICATION
When WITHIN NIGERIA examined the video, it discovered that it was old, but a fresh version with Tinubu’s image in the background was recently shared on social media platform by some influencers.
With the help of a Google image search, it was discovered that the video was originally posted in April 2018, and credible news platforms like WITHIN NIGERIA, Punch, and others reported it as comments credited to former President Obasanjo in an event.
Further investigation found that the video was taken when Obasanjo met with members of the New Nigeria organization at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state.
Obasanjo criticized Buhari’s administration in April 2018 for the state of the economy. He also said that Nigerians are victims of Buhari’s administration’s incompetency.
VERDICT
The viral video showing Obasanjo criticizing the federal government for the plight of the economy is outdated. It is dated April 2018, and the complaints in the video were addressed at late President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
