Controversial journalist and Arise Tv anchor, Rufai Oseni has reacted to the call for his sack by the All Progressives Congress (APC), over what is seen as his stand on some political issues in the country.
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iBrandtv recalls that, in separate publications and mediums, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had called on Arise TV management to sack its reporter, Rufai Oseni.
In a statement credited to the APC Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, the party is asking the broadcast station to sack the employee over his alleged attacks on the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
However, the Board of Editors of ThisDay Newspaper and Arise Television in a statement dated Monday, December 12, 2022, slammed the ruling party for such a call. The broadcast station said it had received two separate requests from top members of the APC campaign organization to lay two news reporters off their positions.
Reacting to the development, Oseni described the calls for his sack as the joke of the year.
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Oseni who took to his Twitter account in the early hours of Wednesday submitted that instead of calling for his sack, the party should allow its presidential candidate to attend debates.
Taking to the micro-blogging site, Twitter, he wrote: “Some people want me sacked. Hahahahahah Joke of the year.Pls, attend debate and town hall. Rufai is not your problem oooo. Let your candidate come for debates. “Sack ko Stephen Sackur ni. Hahahahah”
He also added that he has left such people to God, stating that all things work for his good.
“I leave them for God. “I am a man of peace and I love all my traducers. Everything worketh together for my good,” he concluded.
