Nigeria, April 14 -- A popular social media influencer, Japhet Omojuwa, has backtracked on his statement dissociating a former Nigeria's Education Minister as one of Alpha Reach Limited co-owners.

A BuzzFeed had reported that employees of the PR company run by Mr Omojuwa got paid to promote a social media campaign for the release of a detained Venezualan diplomat, Alex Saab, in Cape Verde.

In his April 9, 2021 statement on the matter, Mr Omojuwa maintained that "Alpha Reach, as an organisation, was not involved in the campaign making the rounds," even as he added that that Mrs Ezekwesili had never been a part-owner of the firm.

"On another note, Alpha Reach wishes to state that at no time was Dr. Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili a part-owner o...