Olushola Omogbehin
The Presidency has vowed to prosecute social media critic Martins Vincent Otse (a.k.a Verydarkman, VDM) for allegedly sharing fake audio of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
A post by X user @Pious_minister showed that an AI generated audio of the President was played in VDM’s video.
In the video, the voice of President Tinubu was captured, saying that the insecurity in Nigeria would continue because of Nigerians refusal to vote for him in 2023.
Reacting to the statement, the Presidency through the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has called for legal action against the social media influencer.
Accusing VDM of circulating the alleged fake audio purportedly linked to the President, Onanuga insisted that spreading false content on social media amounts to a serious abuse of digital platforms.
Onanuga revealed this in a post on X while reacting to controversy surrounding the audio recording speading online and allegedly attributed to President Tinubu.
“This VDM needs to face the weight of the law for being the conveyor and disseminator of a fake audio of President Tinubu. This is a clear case of an egregious abuse of the social media platform.,” the statement reads
Onanuga’s comment was a reaction to a post by an X user known as Aneex, who questioned claims that the voice in the recording belonged to the President.
The user dismissed the recording as “cheap propaganda” and alleged that VDM was exploiting public sentiment to spread misleading information.
