The publication that connected President Bola Tinubu’s administration to the fake government deal declaration of Fela Durotoye, a well-known leadership coach and former Alliance for New Nigeria presidential candidate, has drawn criticism from the Presidency.
Speaking Tuesday at the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria’s biennial conference in Abuja, Durotoye reportedly described how, in spite of intense pressure from a representative posing as a pastor, he turned down a chance to embezzle ₦5 billion in a shady government transaction.
He disclosed that an official approached him with a lucrative training contract and assured him that he had already been chosen for the position, according to a Church Times Nigeria report published on Wednesday.
Durotoye was told that he was an excellent fit for the program, which required educating personnel in all 774 local government areas of Nigeria in eight weeks.
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Upon request, he created an invoice, making sure that the prices were only determined by the real costs. His group estimated that the training would cost 1.3 billion naira.
But everything changed three days later when the president called.
According to Daily Trust, Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, posted a video of the interview on his X handle on Thursday. He said that Durotoye never made accusations against any members of Tinubu’s administration.
“Daily Trust was caught lying again,” he wrote. I saw the video by Durotoye. He never made accusations against any member of Tinubu’s government. However, news and headlines from the unreliable media will always be biased against the Tinubu administration.
