Contrary to the fake story posted on Tik Tok by a content creator with the name @Realcharley22, Kiki Osinbajo, the daughter of Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was never arrested by anyone, anywhere and is indeed in Nigeria.
An authoritative source in the Presidential Villa confirmed that Kiki flew into Abuja with her father (the Vice President) on Tuesday when the VP was returning from the UN World Tourism Organisation’s Global Tourism Conference in Lagos. She was in Abuja since Tuesday all through Wednesday when the Tik Tok post said she was arrested in London.
This clarifies the falsehood promoted by @Realcharley22, a Liberian Tik Tok Content Creator known for posting fake news (videos and photo graphics) on social media.
@Realcharley22 had in a 1 minute, 22 seconds long video, announced that Kiki Osinbajo was on Wednesday arrested by authorities in the United Kingdom in possession of huge sums of money.
But barely 24 hours after launching the apparently sponsored campaign of calumny, @Realcharley22 posted another video recanting his earlier post on the VP’s daughter.
In the 59-second long video with over 400 views in less than 2 hours of its release, @Realcharley22 said “I want to apologize to Kiki Osinbajo because she never got arrested. The story is not true and my source deceived me and took someone else as Kiki.”
According to him “I want to make a disclaimer on the video I posted earlier, I am so sorry, my followers and Kiki Osinbajo, she never got arrested. Kiki Osinbajo never got arrested, my inside source took somebody else for Kiki Osinbajo.
“Popular Nigerian blogger, Tunde Ednut just confirmed on Instagram that it is false, Kiki never got arrested. He asked me to take down the story and it is confirmed that the story is false.”
Below is the link to the video by @Realcharley22 recanting his earlier post
The famous fake news merchant is also known on Twitter by the name @Charleysims31 and @Realcharley22 on Instagram.