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Abdulazeez Abubakar
6 days ago
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FRAUD ALERT: Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, the Fake World Youth President - Beware of Another Dino in the Making!
It is no more news in Nigeria that some individuals rose to power in politics bearing false claims of their previous achievements. An example of such was the recent controversies surrounding Senator Dino Melaye's certificate. It is quite certain that the “Ajekun iya Senator” will be one of many of his generations that have explored such means to establish themselves into the Nigerian political system. It is worrisome to see some youth trailing the same path. It is therefore expedient that we, as Nigerians who are interested in advocating for anti-corruption and good governance, should make every effort to stop these youths from climbing into the political system using such dubious means and tarnishing the image of our dear country.
In November 2016, news emerged on several social media platforms based in Nigeria, that Mr Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew Adeniyi Matthew has been elected as the President of the World Youth Organization (WYO). Later in January 2017, Mr Adeniyi claimed to have been sworn into office at the United Nations headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland in a photograph that vividly showed a room setup in Nigeria with various deceptive costumes (See attached picture). The self-proclamation of Adeniyi as the president of WYO was also covered by prominent newspapers such as Nigerian Tribune Tribune (http://tribuneonlineng.com/nigerian-emerges-president-general-world-youth-organisation/) and Vanguard News Vanguard (http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/nigerian-adeyemi-heads-world-youth-organisation/). It is so shameful to see these prominent news outlets covering and feeding the Nigeria populace with such falsified stories without conducting comprehensive findings. Interestingly, one of them mentioned that Mr. Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew was a former aide to former United Nations’s Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, and former Accounting Officer to the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade. Kindly check the link to read more from the inept reporters of these various news outlets.
Since then, Mr Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew Adeniyi Matthew II has been parading himself in this capacity and soliciting financial supports and political collaborations in Nigeria under the auspices of his “self-proclaimed” position at the WYO. Moreover, he is currently promoting the "World Economic Youth Summit 2017" under the disguise of this position using a self-created Facebook page World Youth Economic Summit 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/World-Youth-Economic-Summit-2017-1663101880650104/). He is also inviting people, probably gullible Nigerians, to use $600 to register for the conference in an attempt to siphon their money (http://wyesummit.org/registration/). His folly caught up with him when we realized that the website was designed by Webline of address #2 Ogunyase Street, UI, Ibadan. Our checks showed that there is an authentic organization with the same name and based in the UK World Youth Organization. The organization is a registered charity in England and Wales, and not related to UN as Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew claimed. Information available on the WYO's website showed that the organisation does not have a president presently but headed by a Chief Executive, Kieran Max Goodwin (https://www.worldyo.org/our-organisation/staff). Interestingly, Mr. Adeniyi Matthew referenced Kieran Max Goodwin as one of those that organised the election that brought him into office and was also present at his inauguration. This prompted us to contact the WYO to make further enquiries. It is to our amazement to hear that WYO has been earlier alerted of the fraudulent activities carried out by Mr. Adeniyi Matthew and the organization released a public statement to this effect in February 2017 to denounce any link with Mr. Adeniyi Matthew https://www.worldyo.org/news/latest-news/2017-02-12-fraud-warning-organisation-based-nigeria
