The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
of sponsoring smear campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Addressing
a press conference in Abuja yesterday, APC National Publicity
Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, alleged that the plot was hatched in
collaboration with some foreigners in Dubai.
He maintained that
the plot, aimed at dishing out fake news and spurious allegations
against Buhari, his family members and other government officials, have
failed to achieve the desired result.
He said: “Their
Dubai-made strategy has collapsed like a pack of cards. The plan was to
recreate the 2014/2015 scenario when APC pilloried them for their
crimes, which woken the electorate to the reality of the disaster we
were headed under the PDP government.
“PDP, led by their
presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, paid huge sums of money to some
foreign con men in Dubai who posed as strategists.
“They began to
spurn daily fake news and make spurious and unsubstantiated allegations
against our president, his family members, the vice president, the APC
national chairman, notable government officials, and public institutions
to deceive Nigerians,” he said.
He said their strategists did not tell them that such would not work when the allegations cannot be proven.
According
to him, this is unlike in 2015 when the APC allegations were based on
facts, which have been validated by revelations upon revelations of
heist committed during the inglorious 16 years of PDP rule.
The
publicity secretary added that the opposition’s disgraceful recourse to
false alarm, as a campaign strategy this time is a wrong approach, as
facts are sacred.
He stressed falsehood, no matter how fleet-footed, would be overtaken by the truth in no time.
Issa-Onilu
said the reality has dawned on the fortune seekers in PDP that it is
not possible to tag a label of corruption on President Buhari as a
demarketing strategy.
He said it is also not possible to campaign
based on issues of governance, as the achievements of this
administration have shown, adding that it is obvious that the PDP has
found itself in a fix.
“Many in the leadership of the main
opposition party are finding it difficult to identify with a character
like Atiku and many of the charlatans running the PDP campaign are
unsellable.
“It is worthy of note that a few of the PDP leaders,
with some residual credibility, are battling with their conscience as
they are increasingly becoming uncomfortable with the level of
immorality that underlines the PDP’s politics. Anyone with a modicum of
decency cannot be proud of the odious reputation of PDP,” he alleged.
He
further claimed that when this is added to the fact that the PDP
campaign has failed to present any programme to Nigerians, it could be
seen clearly why the party’s campaign has become a stillborn.
“Like a lion, PDP roared, but it didn’t last and has joyfully ended up as the bleating of a goat,” he added.
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