CAN THE AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION'S LEOPARD EVER CHANGE ITS SKIN?

Not many people were surprised when a FACEBOOK ACCOUNT credited to AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION (AIT), ANNOUNCED THE RUMOURED DEATH OF PRESIDENT BUHARI in London, on the 23rd January, 2017, because that station, owned by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, was notorious for "mercenary" journalism of fabrication, falsehood and distortion of facts for illicit monetary gains! The transmission of HATE SPEECHES video documentaries on AIT and its sister radio station, RAY POWER against the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, during the electioneering campaigns of the 2015 General Elections, as contracted to DAAR Communications Plc, the umbrella body of both stations by ex-President Jonathan's Administration and the subsequent payment of billions of naira for THE HATCHET JOB, is still fresh in the memories of all Nigerians and political development observers around the world!
Although, DAAR Communications Plc, has denied both ownership and authorship of the FACEBOOK and its content; were they convincing? Below are excerpts of the denial: "The attention of DAAR Communications Plc, has been drawn to a FACEBOOK Account purported being operated by our Organisation.”A report was published on the FACEBOOK that the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on vacation in London has passed on. "We wish to state the following facts: It is falsehood dressed up as truth that we opened such FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. We did not publish nor know anything about the report. None of our correspondents in London filed such report. The editorial policy of our Organisation is that any of our correspondents is mandated to file all the reports for vetting and approval before publication which can only originate from our headquarters. No correspondent could individually on his or her own decision publish or cause to be published any story. "The FACEBOOK Account is the brain child of a faceless and mischievous group whose despicable activities must be investigated by security agencies because of the unpleasant consequences.”We wish to state that the AIT runs an official on-line site for News which is not available for use by outsiders.
"We dissociate ourselves completely from anything contained in the said report which is a figment of the imagination of the authors.”We also disown the so-called FACEBOOK Account, and have officially reported to FACEBOOK Managers."

Between the date of the FACEBOOK publication and up to Friday, 10th February, 2017, - a period of 19 days, both Stations have consistently insisted that the "True State of Health" of President Buhari should be made official, to clear all doubts about his death rumour since a similar episode played out during the tenure of the late President Umaru Yar Adua, of blessed memory in 2010! They accused the President's Media Aides for inappropriate and incoherent information to Nigerians and even alleged that there was a CABAL, (which, Mrs. Aisha Buhari once claimed to have hijacked the ruling APC Government in a BBC Hausa Programme), which had threatened the acting President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, to resign from office in the case of an eventual death of the President! They also supported rumours that State Governors had met in Abuja to decide the next line of action in the event that the President actually died! Sections 143 to 146 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution of 1999 which dealt in details, procedures to be followed in the event of the indisposition of a sitting President were frequently and copiously quoted to buttress their bad wish arguments!
At sundry times during the 19-day period, eminent legal practitioners were featured on the twin stations to confirm their convictions as they insisted that it was pertinent for the President's "handlers" to persuade him to speak to Nigerians through the internet SKYPE Communication System if were truly alive! They neither believed nor were they convinced that the PRESIDENT IS ALIVE, just like the Biblical THOMAS, who insisted that he must see and touch the RISEN CHRIST in order to believe that He was truly alive! (John.20: 24-29).

When we juxtaposed the FACEBOOK publication denial by DAAR Communications Plc, and their vehement pursuit thereafter to establish that if President Buhari was not actually dead, in spite of pictures of him and his wife released on internet at the height of the rumour, and also the acting President’s disclosure that he spoke at length with his Principal on the phone in respect of the state of the nation, specifically on the organised peaceful street protests over the lingering economic recession, by some Nigerians on Monday 6th February, 2017, - we were fully convinced that the media organisation's penchant for hate speech, hate wish and hate agenda which heated up the polity through such video documentary transmissions in exchange for illicit money, was synonymous to the peculiar state of A LEOPARD THAT CAN NEVER CHANGE ITS SKIN!
Did you remember that between the months of January and March 2015, AIT transmitted hate video documentaries against President Buhari with neither proof nor evidence; that he was a tyrant, a dictator and a religious bigot and was not fit to rule Nigeria in order to discredit and defame his character in the eyes of the Nigerian public/electorate, and that although the APC Party Hierarchy sued DAAR Communications Plc, for N50 billion naira damages, the law suit was deliberately left unpursued and was eventually struck out by Justice John Tsoho, of an Abuja High Court, who remarked that the abandonment was "against court rules?" Did you also remember that during that same period, AIT also defamed APC Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu through similar hate video documentary titled: "Umasking The Real Tinubu: The Lion of Bourdillon" which showcased him as owner of a vast empire of various properties and companies across Lagos State and was promptly sued for N150 billion naira damages for libel? But in a swift reaction, the organisation quickly tendered an unreserved written apology amid an ongoing investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of an alleged illegal receipt of N2.1 billion by Raymond Dokpesi, to avoid total bankruptcy and an eventual fold-up, because it had a very, very, bad case? Tinubu was magnanimous in victory even as President Buhari, to withdraw the suit from court. The letter of apology in part reads as follows: "DAAR Communications Plc admits that in airing the said documentary, it had no intention, whatsoever to embarrass or diminish the high reputation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which it respects and attests to The Word of God says: ‘’He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight. (Proverbs 12:17-22)

We need to remind DAAR Communications Plc and members of its staff that their day of reckoning is not farfetched; when they would have to give account of their stewardship! On that day everyone would receive his/her reward according to their work here on earth from the JUST JUDGE! Would these unwarranted attacks on the GOD-APPOINTED VESSEL - purposely appointed to purge Nigeria of its endemic corruption go unnoticed by the Creator of the Heaven and Earth? God will definitely punish all those who are behind the vicious rumour of the death of the Lord's anointed, Muhammadu Buhari! THEY WILL ALL DIE IN HIS PLACE AND HE (BUHARI), WILL LIVE TO DECLARE THE WORKS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO COME! AMEN. Do we also need to remind them that the PDP Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, whose DAAR Communications Plc, wishes that the anti-corruption crusader should die is neck-deep in an allegation that he collected N2.1 billion naira of the funds meant for the purchase of arms to win the war against Boko Haram, from former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki and he is yet to remove that mote from his own eyes in the law court?

Thus saith the LORD: " He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, He reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm!" (Psalm. 105:14-15). NO MORTAL CAN TOUCH OR HARM PRESIDENT BUHARI AND HIS TRAIN OF CORRUPTION PURGERS BECAUSE THE BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA, IS OF THE LORD OF HEAVEN! THE TIME HAS COME, AND THAT TIME IS NOW - WHEN ALL THOSE MONEY LAUNDERERS WHO CLAMOURED THAT CORRUPTION SHOULD BE "BROUGHT BACK" INTO THE SYSTEM WILL SOON BE ROUNDED UP, PROSECUTED AND BE CAST INTO PRISON WHERE THEY WILL ROT AND DIE! THE LORD HATH SPOKEN! AMEN.

ADVICE FOR DAAR COMMUNICATIONS PLC'S STAFF!
AIT celebrated 20 years of television broadcasting in January 2017; reeled out all its landmark achievements since the exit of the military in its avowed mission of nation-building through the dissemination and broadcast of factual, authentic, and truthful reportage of political and socio-economic news, not only in Nigeria but throughout Black Africa and the Diaspora, but failed to highlight their terrible crimes of "mercenary journalism" of HATE SPEECHES, through the elevation of love of money above professionalism, against President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and which, not only dented, but destroyed the entire fabric of a distinctive journalistic trail-blazing of TWO DECADES which made them top-notch in the broadcast industry, at home and abroad!
The African adage states that it would be suicidal to "throw away the baby with the birth water", therefore we will advice the entire staff of this ignomious broadcast organisation which cared less about the sensibilities of Nigerians who adore the divinely -anointed servant, President Buhari and forgot completely that those millions of Nigerians once contributed their hard-earned N100 naira each as BAIL-OUT FUND, at the turn of this century, when it appealed for financial support to escape its immovable assets from being auctioned for failure to repay borrowed bank loans, - to begin to search for their DAILY BREAD elsewhere, because what goes around, will definitely come around!
A WISE FLY WOULD NOT FOLLOW A CORPSE INTO THE GRAVE BECAUSE HE WHO SOWS THE WIND SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND!

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com

Both AIT and APC are agents of falsehood