TikTok:Influencer who spreads fake news about Osinbajo’s daughter gets banned

A Liberian TikTok content creator who is identified as @Realcharley22, has been banned by the social media platform. 

The content creator was accused of  spreading fake news about a daughter of the Vice President of Nigeria, Kiki Osinbajo, when he posted a video claiming that she was arrested with a huge amount of money in her possession. 

The TikTok influencer had posted earlier in the week that Kiki was arrested in the United Kingdom because she was in possession of a lot of dollars.

The user, who posted photos and videos to support the claim, had since come out to refute the news he spread after Nigerian blogger, Tunde Ednut, posted that the information was untrue.

Consequently, Nigerians in their numbers rushed to report the page for deceiving the public and spreading unfounded information about Kiki. 

 Checks on the page on Saturday,November 19th, revealed that the account was no longer on TikTok.

@Realcharley22 barely 24 hours after he had  shared  the false video, shared another video refuting his earlier claims and apologising to Kiki and Nigerians for the post saying his source confused the lady in the video for Kiki.

He said, “I want to apologise to Kiki Osinbajo because she never got arrested. The story is not true and my source deceived me and took someone else as Kiki.

“I want to make a disclaimer on the video I posted earlier, I am so sorry, my followers and Kiki Osinbajo, she never got arrested.

“Popular Nigerian blogger, Tunde Ednut just confirmed on Instagram that it is false, Kiki never got arrested. He asked me to take down the story and it is confirmed that the story is false.”

Kiki reportedly flew into Abuja with her father on Tuesday after the VP’s trip to Lagos, where he spoke at the UN World Tourism Organisation global conference.