WE ARE SORRY, BUSINESSDAY PLEADS WITH OSINBAJO BUSINESSDAY.ng has retracted a story and apologized to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo over a story it published On the 9th of August 2020.
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The story titled “Ex APC spokesman asks Buhari to probe Osinbajo, AuGF over alleged N10bn withdrawal from TSA” , was later discovered to be without facts.
“That story failed to meet the editorial standards of BusinessDay Newspaper, as we have since discovered that the story was baseless, unfounded and unsupported by any factual substance”.
“We have already disabled the links to the story and hereby retract it completely and unreservedly”.
“BusinessDay apologises to His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, his family, friends, colleagues and well-wishers for the unwarranted inconvenience and embarrassment the publication has occasioned”. The medium said.
Businessday further said that it held the Vice President in very high esteem and appreciate his enormous worthy and enviable achievements in the private sector as a respected Professor of Law – of multiple decades standing and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, amongst others; and the worthy and enviable strides he has made in public service as the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Lagos and presently Vice President of Nigeria.
The Newspaper therefore apologized for allowing it platform to be used to convey such a baseless news story.
“The said publication is highly regretted by us and we urge our esteemed readers and the general public not to ascribe or attach our reputation for disseminating accurate information that we expect the public to trust to it”.
The paper said it had sent a letter conveying its unreserved apology to the Vice President.
