Nigeria, June 5 -- Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on information and strategy, has confirmed the arrest of the creator behind the viral AI-generated voice notes of the president.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Onanuga, in an X post, alleged that activist Martins "VeryDarkMan (VDM)" Otse created the voice notes.

He subsequently called for VDM's prosecution and accused him of spreading fake voice notes linked to the president.

However, criticism mounted against Mr Onanuga after investigators established that VDM didn't create the voice notes attributed to Mr Tinubu.

This newspaper fact-checked the voice notes and found that an unknown person had manipulated them.

This newspaper further found out that the voi...