Spotlighting Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s anti-vaccination champion who later took the jab

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Until March 20 when he suddenly announced that he had taken his first jab, Femi Fani-Kayode was at the forefront of the campaign in...

; confirmed cases were in total of thousands; patients were treated in isolation centres with close monitoring; worse still, researches on the virus had not reached advanced stages, hence, conspiracy theories held sway. In short, it was a time of panic and tweets by Mr Fani-Kayode readily reinforced people’s fears and biases.Against the nature of his comments, Mr Fani-Kayodeon March 30, 2021, that he had taken a jab.

As of the morning of Monday, June 14, his announcement tweets had a total of 1,173 likes, comments and retweets; a less than 10 per cent faction of interaction when compared to four of his falsehood spreading tweets examined in this piece.This confirms the concerns of some researchers who have discovered that a good percentage of people who come in contact with false information don’t care about the follow-up fact-checks.

Not done, the ex-minister still used the opportunity of his vaccination to peddle falsehood about vaccines. “There is a world of difference between what we are being given in Nigeria & the exploratory vaccines that @WHO had wanted to test Africans with which we spoke against & resisted last year. Most importantly Bill Gates& his foundation have no connection with Oxford Azrazeneca.One notices that he recounted some of his earlier misinformation about the vaccines but not all that came in contact with the falsehood are impressed.

 

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His boss here silently took it before leaving the WH. They all said COVID-19 was a scam.

dmightyangel Back and front door

Omo_Kaaro_Ojire

scarfizal Reason you shouldn't trust politicians. 😩

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I don’t know why he was deceiving himself in the first place.

Kolo

I hope he didn't slap the Nurse that administered it oh

I'm beginning to believe that FFK is not a serious person. So surprised that he speaks from both sides of his mouth. What a shame!

The reason I don't listen to them

uchebakaadi Anyone still taking this man serious is wasting his time.

Tan'feku?

Hypocrite

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