Okonjo-Iweala Accuses Premium Times of Doctoring Video of Her Encounter with House Committee

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has accused online news website, Premium Times of uploading a doctored video of her last appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance.

The minister in a statement signed by her Special Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu said the Premium Times video is substantially different from the one which Channels TV independently captured, uploaded and has been seen by many Nigerians have seen.

It would be recalled that the online new platform uploaded a video that clearly highlighted what transpired at the hearing between the minister and the Chairman of the House Committee on Finance, Dr Abdulmimin Jubrin.

READ: VIDEO: Okonjo-Iweala Versus House Committee on Finance: The Untold Story

But the minister said, “the Premium Times video has been edited to leave out important aspects with the clear intention to make the Coordinating Minister look like the aggressor during the appearance. This is absolutely false,” the statement said

The statement added that: “Many aspects of the encounter which captured the provocation of the Chair of the Committee were edited out to give a wrong impression.”

For instance, the new video left out his hostile statement “you can decide what happens only in the Federal Ministry of Finance and other ministers you coordinate but you cannot decide what will happen in the committee”.

“This was after the minister indicated her willingness to answer the questions along with the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation and the Accountant General of the Federation.”

“Also edited out, amongst others, was the unilateral banging of the gavel by the Chair of the Committee to abruptly terminate the proceedings and the astonished reactions of the audience.”

“Significantly, Premium Times did not identify the source of the video which it described as an “exclusive”.

The clear objective is to deceive Nigerians who were rightly outraged by the treatment meted out to the Minister. But we are confident that Nigerians are too wise to fall for this antic.

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