Tinubu made us opposition. Obi made us APC. Apparently.

When we started looking into Tinubu, some people assumed we must be working for the opposition. Then we opened the Obi files, and suddenly some of the same accusations changed direction: now we were supposedly working for Tinubu.

It says a lot about how political information is received in Nigeria. A document concerning a politician someone dislikes can immediately become “evidence”, while similar scrutiny of the politician they support is dismissed as “propaganda”.

That is not how VERO RECORD works. We do not need Tinubu to be guilty, and we do not need Obi to be guilty. When we eventually examine Atiku, we will not need a predetermined conclusion there either.

Sometimes an investigation confirms a claim. Sometimes the documents weaken it. Sometimes the story becomes more complicated than either political side suggests. And sometimes, after following the trail, there simply is not enough evidence to prove the allegation. We publish that too.

Our work on Tinubu has produced findings that deserve scrutiny, but it has also produced claims we could not substantiate. The same applies to Obi: there are records that raise legitimate questions, but there are also conclusions being drawn from those records that the evidence currently does not establish.

If VERO RECORD publishes something false, challenge it. Show us the incorrect figure, the document that was misrepresented, the quotation that does not exist, or the conclusion that goes beyond the evidence. If we are wrong, we will correct the record publicly.

But disagreement with what a genuine document shows is something different. Evidence does not become propaganda simply because it concerns someone you support.

We are not building a campaign page for or against anybody. We are building a record.

01 OCT — THE TINUBU FILES | 15 OCT — THE OBI FILES | 30 OCT — THE ATIKU FILES

VERO RECORD — Nigeria, on the record.

Truth has a paper trail.