Former Cross River state governor, Donald Duke has raised the alarm that the picture widely used to connote Bola Tinubu as a child was actually his.
Duke averred that photograph of a young boy in dark sunglasses, seated and with his fingers joined together, used in various documentaries to depict the childhood of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate was actually his childhood picture.
The former Cross-River state chief executive made this known to editors at roundtable organised by the Front Fort Media Initiative and the MacArthur Foundation, an event held recently in Lagos.
The Media team of Bola Ahmed Tinubu had made various documentaries to launder the image of the APC presidential candidate with the documentaries televised some months ago on the TVC, and also uploaded on various YouTube channels.
A slew of photos and videos were used to narrate the life history, political ascendancy of Tinubu with the video showing a particular monochrome photograph of a young boy in dark sunglasses, seated and with his fingers joined together.
Donald Duke in the new revelation stated that the photo of the boy shown as ‘young Tinubu’ in the documentaries, is him and not the Bola Tinubu as televised, noting that he took the picture when he was 12 years old.
In his words:
“The picture of the boy used as Bola Tinubu in all the documentaries is me. I am the boy in the picture, not Tinubu as they claimed in their documentaries. That photo was taken when I was 12 years old during my school years at the Federal Government College Sokoto, in Sokoto state.”