David Hundeyin, an award-winning investigative journalist has said Durojaiye Ogunsanya, a public affairs analyst, who claimed to have been a classmate of President Bola Tinubu at Chicago State University (CSU), is fake.
In an interview with TVC, Ogunsanya said he shared the same class with Tinubu and they both graduated in 1979.
He said: “We met in school at Chicago State University, where we were both enrolled in the College of Accounting Business and Administrative, majoring in Accounting. We shared the same classes, and we graduated together in 1979.”
But, reacting to the news via X (Twitter), Hundeyin wrote: “Example no 1,358,956 of why you need to fund independent media: Everybody and their dog is now reporting that one “Durojaiye Ogunsanya” appeared on TVC claiming to be Tinubu’s coursemate at @ChicagoState.
“Exactly NONE of them bothered to do a 5-minute fact check to even establish whether anybody called “Durojaiye Ogunsanya” even exists. A simple refined string search on Google using that search keyword shows very obviously that this is a made-up identity.
“The only time the name “Durojaiye Ogunsanya” appears on the entire internet is in news articles reporting about the same TVC appearance. Someone claiming to be a “public affairs analyst” cannot possibly have a web footprint that is literally zero.
“This idiot appeared on TVC using an assumed identity to make a claim that everyone with a functioning pair of eyes knows is not true, and look at “journalists” queuing up to report and amplify this nonsense. Meanwhile none of them has reported that the FBI is preparing to release 2,500 pages of its dossier on Tinubu, or that @ChicagoState yesterday in court disowned the forged certificate that Tinubu submitted to INEC.
“Just another instance of mainstream Nigerian media being daft and incurious while queuing up to parrot an official line, just like how they all reported that @hadisirika attended one “Petroleum Helicopters Institute” in the USA – a place that does not exist.
“If you like yourself and you want a better life for your children, FUND INDEPENDENT MEDIA.”
See Hundeyin’s post below:
Example no 1,358,956 of why you need to fund independent media:
Everybody and their dog is now reporting that one "Durojaiye Ogunsanya" appeared on TVC claiming to be Tinubu's coursemate at @ChicagoState.
Exactly NONE of them bothered to do a 5-minute fact check to even… https://t.co/DtThNYMP01 pic.twitter.com/ckCd0XqP4L
— David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) September 13, 2023