The Presidency yesterday vowed to prosecute social media critic Martins Vincent Otse (popularly known as Verydarkman, VDM) for allegedly sharing fake audio of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
A post by X user @Pious_minister showed that an AI generated audio of the President was played in VDM’s video.
The audio captured Tinubu’s voice, saying that the insecurity in Nigeria would continue because of Nigerians reluctance to vote for him in 2023.
But in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Presidency called for legal action against the social media influencer.
The statement accused VDM of circulation the alleged fake audio purportedly linked to the President.
Onanuga insisted that spreading false content on social media amounts to a serious abuse of digital platforms.
The President spokesman gave the hint in a post on X while reacting to controversy surrounding the audio recording circulating online and allegedly attributed to President Tinubu.
The statement reads: “This VDM needs to face the weight of the law for being the conveyor and disseminator of a fake audio of President Tinubu. This is a clear case of an egregious abuse of the social media platform.”
The presidential aide’s comments followed a post by an X user identified as Aneex, who questioned claims that the voice in the recording belonged to the President.
The user dismissed the recording as “cheap propaganda” and alleged that VDM was exploiting public sentiment to spread misleading information.
The development has sparked reactions on social media, with debates continuing over the authenticity of the audio and concerns over the spread of unverified content on digital platforms.
