A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP and former governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, has claimed that his photograph was being used in various documentaries to depict the childhood of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Duke made the revelation during a roundtable organised by the Front Fort Media Initiative and the MacArthur Foundation and held recently in Lagos.
Recall that the APC media team had packaged various documentaries to launder the image of its presidential candidate.
The documentaries which were televised on Tinubu’s Television Continental (TVC) and also uploaded on various YouTube channels, used images and videos to narrate the life history, political ascendancy, and achievements of Tinubu.
In one of the documentaries, monochrome photograph of a young boy in dark sunglasses, seated and with his fingers joined together, was cited as Tinubu during his years as a young boy.
Duke who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claimed yesterday that the image of the boy shown as ‘young Tinubu’ in the documentaries was him and not Tinubu as portrayed.
He said he took the picture when he was 12 years old.
“The picture of the boy used as Bola Tinubu in all the documentaries is me. I am the boy in the picture, not Tinubu as they claimed in their documentaries. That photo was taken when I was 12 years old during my school years at the Federal Government College Sokoto, in Sokoto stat,” Duke said.
