Two days ago you guys read the 18-page stinker Obasanjo wrote to President Jonathan (In case you missed it,
enjoy).
Well, here's the thing, online news site Premium Times published the
letter first and claimed to have exclusive rights to it. They even
watermarked each page of the letter. Punch and other media houses later
wrote their own reports and published unwatermarked version of the
letter
Premium Times is now accusing Punch and all the other media houses of
plagiarism, claiming they stole their exclusive and refused to
acknowledge them.
The Editor-in Chief of the Premium Times,
Dapo Olorunyomi, said
“Majority of the papers published the complete text
of the letter which was first revealed to the world by this newspaper,
and made available via our website. There were also cases of shameless
lifting of the original story published by this medium. I am weirdly tickled at the absence of humility in
competitors who sought to ignore accepting that they got the material
from us and ended up failing to offer their readers the source of the
material altogether.” Premium
Punch has reacted to the allegations, insisting Premium Times was not
the source of their report. See their statement after the break