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APC: Arise TV Speaks On ‘firing’ Rufai Oseni, Shaka Momodu

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Arise TV releases statement on firing Morning Show co-host on Arise News, Rufai Oseni, and ThisDay Editor, Shaka Momodu.

 

The Board of Editors of ThisDay Newspaper and Arise Television, on Monday, reacted to requests from the All Progressive Congress, APC, campaign organisation to lay two news reporters off their positions.

 

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Newsonline reports that the Board of Editors said it received two separate requests from top members of the APC campaign organisation to move ThisDay Editor, Shaka Momodu, and The Morning Show co-host on Arise News, Rufai Oseni, from their current positions “to stop the attacks or get a reprieve from a future Bola Tinubu presidency”.

In a joint statement titled: “Tinubu and ThisDay/Arise Media Group and the Attack on Free Speech”, the media organisation said they would cower to pressure from the ruling APC.

 

“We also note that two senior APC campaign officials had separately requested that we move THISDAY Editor and columnist, Shaka Momodu, and The Morning Show co-host on ARISE News, Rufai Oseni, from their current positions to stop the attacks or get a reprieve from a future Tinubu presidency.

“The Boards of Editors of This Day Newspapers and the Arise News Channel would like to state without equivocation that we do not fire journalists because of their views.

“Facts are sacred and opinions free is the age-old dictum to which all free-thinking men subscribe.

“We allow our editors the freedom to air their opinions unfettered and have created The Office of the Ombudsman to take any complaints and discipline any abuse of office by any of our staff members,” Arise TV’s statement reads in part.

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