Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was outraged by the premature leak of his father’s speech online before its scheduled broadcast to the nation.
The speech, addressing the ongoing protests against the government, was intended for live delivery but was released online ahead of time.
Taking to social media, Seyi Tinubu expressed his frustration, pointing out that providing the media with an embargoed copy of a president’s address before the live broadcast is a common practice globally.
He criticized a member of the media for breaching journalistic ethics and professionalism by leaking the speech before it was officially delivered.
He wrote:
“It is standard global practice anywhere in the world to provide an embargoed copy of a President’s address to the media prior to him going live,” Seyi Tinubu said on his Instagram story. “Someone in the media (outside the villa) broke the code of journalistic ethics and professionalism by releasing it before the actual address was delivered.”
