A report in listing Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, among some purported absentee governors is a faux pas, which we deem to be one of those moments in human imperfections.
This is particularly so because the report merely parroted a statement made by an opposition party without any attempt, even by the account of the story, to verify the claim. We do not believe that or any credible medium should have fallen for such in this age of fake news and disinformation.
A check of some photographs of activities of the governor in the last seven days before the misleading report was published would have condemned such a copy to the bin. Apart from the earlier low-key official activities of the governor in the last one week, AbdulRazaq joined the Emir of Ilorin, Dr Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, to host the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’d Abubakar III in Ilorin, the state capital, on November 3. The governor was in Ilorin on November 8.
This has been the trend of his activities despite his added responsibility as the NGF chairman, which expectedly requires that he joggles his time as he takes on more national roles, like the tasks of leading his 35 other colleagues.
Despite his huge schedules, the governor, for the record, has never at any time travelled outside of Ilorin for two weeks at a stretch between 2019 and now. Never.
We hope that will henceforth do independent checks of any claim by opposition elements and not adopt the same as its own report without due diligence that it is known for.
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