Facebook posts from February 2024 claim that Nigeria’s secret police, the DSS, have arrested Aisha YesufuEllaNews reports that Yesufu, an ally of Peter Obi, often vigorously criticise President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the ruling APCA fact-checking platform checked for proof to support the claim about the alleged arrest of Yesufu>>>READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
EllaNews journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering public journalism.
FCT, Abuja – A post on February 18 claimed that the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested Aisha Yesufu.
Yesufu is a staunch critic of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration and an ally of Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election.
Aisha Yesufu has been a thorn in the flesh of successive Nigerian governments. Photo credits: Patrick Meinhardt/Aisha Yesufu
Source: UGC
The poster claimed that Yesufu was arrested because of her insistence that Bola Tinubu was an illegitimate president.
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The claim can also be found here and here.
The post reads:
“Just In: Aisha Yesufu Arrested By DSS on The Order Of Tinubu For Discriminatory Words Against The President. The DSS has just arrested media influencer Aisha Yesufu for denying Tinubu as her president and claiming the president was rigged into Office.”
Following this claim, a fact-checking platform, Africa Check, scrutinised it.
After its scrutiny, the platform ruled that there was no proof that Yesufu had been arrested.
It said that given Yesufu’s popularity, it is unlikely that her arrest by the DSS would go unreported by the mainstream media. There is no such report from credible media organisations.
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Earlier, EllaNews reported that Yesufu said she knows nothing about the alleged financial misappropriation that has created a fresh crisis in the opposition party.
Yesufu stated that she has heard rumours claiming she was involved in the alleged scandal, hence she has to clear her name and challenge the rumour mongers.
She stated that every donation we collected under Obi/Datti Baba-Ahmed campaign was paid directly into the campaign account>>>READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
