BBC Africa retracts ‘flamboyant’ description of Adesina
BBC Africa has retracted its earlier description of African Development Bank Chairman, Akinwumi Adesina, whom it termed as “flamboyant Nigerian banker”.
BBC Africa had described Adesina as flamboyant in its headline announcing his reelection as the chairman of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday.
Following the announcement, Nigerians took to Twitter to lambaste the news medium for their description of their beloved Agricultural Economist.
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Consequently, BBC Africa in a tweet on Friday said that they meant no disrespect in its use of “flamboyant” to describe Mr. Adesina. It also said they have corrected Adesina’s title as “chairman” instead of “president” as written in the previous post.
“We have removed the description of Dr Akinwumi Adesina as “flamboyant”. We recognise this – absolutely unintentionally – may have caused offence, and is irrelevant to the story. We have also corrected his title to African Development Bank president,” the tweet read.
Recall that Adesina became the first Nigerian to be elected two-term president of the AfDB on Thursday after he was voted unopposed at the annual meeting of the bank.
A former Nigerian minister of agriculture, Adesina will start his new five-year term as AfBD president on September 1, 2020.
