Tinubu Petitions NBC, Calls For Sanction Of Channels TV Over OBI-Datti Recent Interview

Date: 31-03-2023 9:15 am (2 years ago) | Author: onuigbo felicia
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The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, has written a petition to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), asking the commission to sanction Channels Television for allegedly breaching the Nigerian Broadcasting Code during a recent interview with Labour Party's Vice Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.

In the petition dated 30th March, 2023 and signed by the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, the president-elect had said:

“In line with Section 14.0.1 of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code 6th edition stating the duty of the National Broadcasting Commission to accept complaints from aggrieved persons, bodies or members of the public and investigate as well as apply sanctions where necessary, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council hereby petitions the Commission on what it considers breaches by CHANNELS TV last week on its programme ‘Politics Today’ which airs daily at 7pm on weekdays”,

The former Lagos State governor accused Baba-Ahmed of making several comments attacking the integrity of the 25 February 2023 Presidential elections. In the interview, Datti faulted the emergence of Tinubu as the President-elect and categorically asked President Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria not to swear him in.

In his petition, Tinubu said the host of the show should have cautioned the Labour party candidate for making such unguarded comments and that for failing to do so, the station should be sanctioned.

The petition in part reads
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“He (Datti) said the Labour Party won the elections. This is a fallacy and not correct. According to the Code, a Broadcaster is liable when his guest is allowed to make a wild statement that is inaccurate and not based on fact. The only factual figures empirically collated as the final result is the one released by the Independent National Electoral Commission which placed Labour party as third.

The guest on the programme in question Datti Baba -Ahmed said the President of the country Muhammadu Buhari should not swear in the President-elect because he did not score 25% vote in the FCT, being one of the prerequisites for being declared winner. This is a subversive statement since the matter is before the tribunal and is among the issues submitted in their petition to the courts for adjudication. Therefore until and unless the court rules otherwise, the status quo is the INEC position as declared in the final results

The guest Datti Baba Ahmed’s comments about Labour Party winning the presidential vote undermines constituted authority given to INEC in the 1999 Constitution as the body vested with the powers to conduct and announce the results of national general elections in Nigeria. Any other figures will have to be certified by the tribunal as the authentic one

Therefore Mr Datti’s comments that the INEC certificate of return issued to the President-elect is a “dud cheque” and is null and void is not only divisive, subversive but also inciting and inflammatory.

The Code states in Section 3.8.1(b) that ‘A Broadcaster shall ensure that no programme contains anything which amounts to subversion of constituted authority or compromises the unity or corporate existence of Nigeria as a Sovereign state’.

The statement by Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed later on the same programme that if ‘President Buhari should hand over to the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu by May 29, that would be the end of democracy’ is another case of unguarded utterance.

This is in breach of Section 5.3.3(b) which states that – ‘A Broadcaster shall avoid inflammatory and divisive matters in its provocative form in using political material’.

Furthermore, Section 3.0.2.1 states that- ‘No Broadcaster shall encourage or incite to crime, lead to public disorder or hate, or repugnant to public feelings’ materials that cause disaffection.

By denying the authenticity of the INEC Presidential election results Mr Datti is at liberty to seek for the voiding of the results, but until the court or tribunal upturns those results they remain the authentic results. Channels TV cannot encourage him to use its platform to create anarchy by disputing results on air without corroborating his facts.

In asking the President not to swear in the President-elect he is subverting the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC’s constitutionally guaranteed authority.

In using words like ‘handing over to the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be the end of democracy’ he is not only promoting a threat but instigating a call to rebellion against the state. This is antithetical to the use of the media for social harmony and peaceful

It is our considered opinion that the guest Datti Baba-Ahmed was not only provocative but also inciting the public and the Labour Party followers to delegitimise the outcome of the elections but also propagate resistance against the incoming dully elected administration. of Bola Ahmed-Tinubu and Kashim Shettima.

We therefore urge the Commission to invoke the necessary sanctions on Channels TV for the breaches enumerated above”.

Posted: at 31-03-2023 09:15 AM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- SWORDMAN at 31-03-2023 09:24 AM (2 years ago)
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Abeg where Tinubu dey write the petition from?? Hope say no be from Hospital bed in the United Kingdom oh I forgot abi na from France?? Make I go open shop !!!
Posted: at 31-03-2023 09:24 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- alexidwayne at 31-03-2023 09:26 AM (2 years ago)
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Sharrap,why are u scared?
Posted: at 31-03-2023 09:26 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Olandetujaa at 31-03-2023 09:51 AM (2 years ago)
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I have been expecting this letter for a long time because it seems as if there is no more broadcasting regulatory body in Nigeria, where anyone can just walk in to the studio and speak as the jury, judge and supreme constituted authority over his own case. In that interview he ridiculed the president of the country, the president elect, inec chairman and the court of law, he should be deported back to his country Mauritania where he came from. 
Posted: at 31-03-2023 09:51 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Jiiitk4 at 31-03-2023 10:15 AM (2 years ago)
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He should have petitioned against himself for unleashing his miscreants against non indigenes in Lagos state during the just concluded general elections in Nigeria. What hasn't this man committed? And what is his problem now? He should go and cash the cheque given to him by INEC. Dud cheque.
Posted: at 31-03-2023 10:15 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Dopybadass at 31-03-2023 12:10 PM (2 years ago)
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This man should be arrested by now
Posted: at 31-03-2023 12:10 PM (2 years ago) | Hero
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- Boi2Man at 31-03-2023 02:24 PM (2 years ago)
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INEC has lost it constitutional authority and is being used as ruddy ruffy by some  head of thugs
Posted: at 31-03-2023 02:24 PM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- FloJoJo at 1-04-2023 02:11 AM (2 years ago)
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Tinubu is very sick and currently on managed care facility in France for treatment. I talk'am before say na Vice President SELECT (Shettima) was the person dem rigged the election for and no bi Tinubu  Roll Eyes.
Posted: at 1-04-2023 02:11 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
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