Festus Keyamo, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, has accused the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) of “harvesting chaff and fake news” ahead of the 2019
elections.
Keyamo said this while debunking
a “fake news” allegedly engineered by the PDP.
He said a media report circulated
by the opposition party had quoted Rotimi Amaechi, director-general of of the
campaign organisation, as describing Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) as a “bad luck” to the ruling party.
The lawyer described the report
as a “classic case of the much-touted fake news that has become a tool in the
hands of desperate politicians.”
“For the avoidance of doubt, we
wish to state without equivocation that Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi did not
at any forum, whether in private or public, utter such words or anything close
to those words in reference to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He holds Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole in the highest esteem possible,” he said.
“We have since discovered that
this ‘fake news’ was concocted, released and circulated by the sinking main
opposition party.
“Indeed the combination of Rt.
Honourable Rotimi Amaechi and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is an obvious nightmare
to them.”
The organisation added that it
has learnt many of such “fake news” would be released and circulated by the
opposition “presently clutching at straws and harvesting chaff to survive.”
It said for the opposition,
“blackmail, outright lies, falsehood and now “fake news” have become their
campaign strategy” while “on our part, we are set to run an issue-based
campaign.”
Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman,
is yet to reply to an inquiry sent to him regarding the allegations as of the
time of filing this report.
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