Sir: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) condemns the expulsion of an Arise Television cameraman from a campaign meeting by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, with the business community in Lagos on January 13, 2023.
The action of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council is bizarre, highhanded and a violation of the rights of the media.
We note that Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the APC-PCC Director of Media and Publicity, had claimed on Twitter that the Arise Television cameraman was caught clandestinely livestreaming Bola Tinubu’s campaign event without authorisation and accused him of being “on espionage mission”. We find this particularly bewildering because Mr. Onanuga, who issued the justification and made the accusation of espionage, spent a significant portion of his career as a professional journalist engaged in what came to be known as guerrilla journalism, for which he and the two media outlets, The News and Tempo magazines, where he served as an editor, were widely applauded, including by people like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
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