{"id":82253,"date":"2023-02-10T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:20:50","slug":"tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s \u2018bala blu\u2019 comment doctored \u2013 Campaign director, Dele Alake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dele Alake, has declared that the video wherein presidential candidate Bola Tinubu mentioned \u201cbala blu&#8230;bulaba\u201d was doctored.<\/p>\n<p>Alake, Director of Strategy and Communication in the APC Presidential Campaign Council, stated that his principal was a victim of calumny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can create wonders&#8230;here is a successful again. A town hall, different from Bala blu, blu blu, bulaba\u201d, Tinubu said in November at a parley with private sector players.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that instances of the former Lagos governor\u2019s incoherence were signs that he may not be fit for the presidency, but his supporters disagree.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Nigeria Info FM, Alake told Nigerians that the speech, recorded live by multiple different media outlets, was manipulated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true, it was doctored. We showed the real original video clip on TVC and then it was broken into snippets and thrown on social media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Commissioner for Information in Lagos insists Tinubu remains the candidate to beat in the presidential election on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Alake dismissed the popularity of Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate Peter Obi, describing his supporters as Nollywood \u2018waka pass\u2018 (extras in movies).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign director maintained Tinubu\u2019s achievements far surpass Obi\u2019s and declared the latter \u201cwill trail far behind\u201d in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not to denigrate him, these are hard facts. They\u2019ve been governors for eight years. There is no basis for comparison between Obi and Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference is clear. It\u2019s like night and day, like fluke and substance. Our candidate is the substance\u201d, Alake boasted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dele Alake, has declared that the video wherein presidential candidate Bola Tinubu mentioned \u201cbala blu&#8230;bulaba\u201d was doctored. Alake, Director of Strategy and Communication in the APC Presidential Campaign Council, stated that his principal was a victim of calumny. \u201cWe can create wonders&#8230;here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,9773,254,945],"class_list":["post-82253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-dele-alake","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu\u2019s \u2018bala blu\u2019 comment doctored \u2013 Campaign director, Dele Alake - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dele Alake, has declared that the video wherein presidential candidat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu\u2019s \u2018bala blu\u2019 comment doctored \u2013 Campaign director, Dele Alake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dele Alake, has declared that the video wherein presidential candidat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-10T10:47:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-10T12:20:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676017039.23.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1156\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu\u2019s \u2018bala blu\u2019 comment doctored \u2013 Campaign director, Dele Alake\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-10T10:47:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-10T12:20:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676017039.23.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Dele Alake\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-bala-blu-comment-doctored-campaign-director-dele-alake\",\"name\":\"Tinubu\u2019s \u2018bala blu\u2019 comment doctored \u2013 Campaign director, Dele Alake - 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