On October 31, 2022, we erroneously published a statement from the Kogi state government on our Online Platform with the headline, “Kogi government demands arrest of Natasha over ‘link with terrorist”, which without any known proof, accused Mrs Natasha Hadiza Akpoti-Uduaghan of having links with terrorists.
We have since discovered that the said statement against Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan was not true and therefore sincerely tender an unreserved apology to her, her husband, the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in Kogi Central, and regret whatever inconvenience or embarrassment the publication must have caused them.
To this end, we are also using this medium to retract the story and dissociate Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan from any link whatsoever to terrorism, as no security agency or a court of law indicted her to that effect.
Why admitting our error in this regard, we also wish to state that until last week, the newspaper did not receive any document from Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan asking us to retract and also apologise, as done by other newspapers which reported same story.
Again, we respectfully apologise for this error and strongly urge the public to disregard the earlier story.
EDITOR (ONLINE)
