Tribunal: Fashola petitions DSS to investigate peddlers of fake news

<p>Former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has petitioned the Department of State Service (DSS) to investigate the peddlers of fake news about his alleged involvement in the drafting of the judgement for the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT).</p>, <p>Jackson Ude alleged that Fashola and some lawyers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were writing a judgement the ruling party intends to hand over to the judges.</p>, <p>Ude also alleged that Fashola supervised the rigging of the 2023 Presidential election in favour of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.</p>, <p>He added that Fashola had allegedly written the judgement for Judges in the 2019 Presidential election Tribunal that sealed former President Mohammadu Buhari’s victory.</p>, <p>In response, Fashola, through his spokesperson Hakeem Bello, condemned the allegations, describing those responsible as “agents of destabilisation.”</p>, <p>Fashola after filing formal petitions against the offensive tweets and online reports with the management of X, formerly known as Twitter, and the National Communications Commission (NCC) has now unmasked the perpetrators.</p>, <p>The former two-term governor of Lagos State on Tuesday in a letter signed by his lawyer, Olanrewaju Akinsola and addressed to the Director General of DSS petitioned the Security Service to arrest Annexurel – Tweet of @jacksonpbn, Annexure I – Tweet of @yorubasheikh and Annexure Ill – Tweet of @ReporteraNews.</p>, <p>“We are Solicitors to His Excellency, Mr. Babatunde R. FASHOLA, SAN, CON, the immediate past Honourable Minister of Works and Housing Our Client, and we have his instrucuons to interface with you in respect of the above-captioned matter,” Akinsola wrote.</p>, <p>“The attention of our Client has been drawn to a tweet published on Wednesday, 2 August 2023 on microblogging site, X formerly known as Twitter by one Jackson Ude tweeting under the handle of @jacksonpbn with the headline: EXPOSED: FASHOLA IS WRITING PEPT JUDGEMENT FOR JUDGES.</p>, <p>“The said Jackson Ude w