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I’ll Be Here Until The Coast Is Clear – Journalist Who Published Ganduje’s Bribe Video

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4 years ago

May 3, 2021.

Yinka Akanbi

The Daily Nigerian newspaper had in October 2018 published a video that showed Ganduje collecting money in dollars from a government contractor

A Nigerian journalist, Jaafar Jaafar, has fled the country to the United Kingdom over alleged threats to his life.

Jaafar, said he has relocated with his family and will not be returning to the country his safety can be guaranteed.

The newspaper publisher, who was recently invited by the police over alleged defamation of the police chief’s character, said he will only return to Nigeria when the government can guarantee his safety.

“I’ll be here until this regime can guarantee my safety and protect freedom of the press,” he told Premium Times.

Jaafar’s ordeals started about a month after Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje revealed that those behind a video of him collecting bribe would be brought to shame.

In the video, the governor was seen collecting the dollars before rolling them into his white dress, called “babanriga”.

The video damaged Ganduje’s reputation although it did not stop his reelection in 2019.

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Ganduje also stopped the state assembly from probing the video.

In response to Jaafar’s claim that the video is authentic, on a BBC Hausa programme, ‘Afada Acika’, the governor in March this year insisted it was ‘cloned’ (manipulated).

“The video is fake and we are preparing to prove that. But I cannot preempt what we are doing with regard to that. I am assuring you this video is fake and all those that are behind it would be put to shame,” the governor said.

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