RAFIU AJAKAYE
A confession: I am used to the Kwara PDP taking outright falsehood as an organizational policy. A few years ago, a certain Kwara PDP leader (no prize for guessing right) claimed that a court had given him an interim order restraining the EFCC from arresting him. It turned out to be a lie. No court ever gave such an order as at the time of the claim. In 2012, I flagged a claim of the PDP government purporting to sign a N70bn contract with a phantom (nonexistent) Vasolar Consortium. You sef Google that name for yourself. You will not see anything like that, other than news reports the government generated from the fake contract. Nothing more.
To the latest lie from the stable of the PDP: its chieftains and stake-seekers have shared a news report from a phantom London-based group, Good Governance Rating Index (GGRI). That group does not exist anywhere in the United Kingdom. Fact-check it. It is ofege and arumoje, to quote the Yoruba.
When I challenged one of the carriers of the fake news, sadly a journalist, he instead pointed me to the 2025 Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) in which the said claims were purportedly made. Pray, how does CGGI correlate with the GGRI that he himself had mentioned in the initial fake news? Regardless, the 2025 CGGI did NOT make any reference to Kwara in its 124-page report. Please check it out, too.
If you take it a step further, you would discover that the only online trace or reference to the GGRI as a group are the reports generated in that name by Sarakites/PDP boys. Like GGRI, like Vasolar Consortium. Fake news is becoming a legacy of the Saraki boys. This is not just embarrassing; it is in fact a crime.
What we are seeing is not a coincidence. HE Bukola Saraki, a former governor and senate president, was caught in a video ahead of the 2023 polls asking PDP members to deploy propaganda against the APC-led government. Propaganda is hardly entirely evil. But Senator Saraki was talking to a mob who hardly know a difference between propaganda and falsehood, which is what the GGRI is.
I hope some national news media which have published the fake news will honorably bring it down. It is bad for the reputation of our cherished profession.
Leaders must avoid what Senator Saraki did. He practically set young people up for a dangerous task of blurring the line between falsehood and truth in the name of politics. It is unfair to his own standing as a senior citizen to whom many people look up.
My dears in Kwara PDP, if e didn’t dey, e didn’t dey. You are simply lying your way to another electoral defeat, God willing.
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