PDP has criticised Lai Mohammed
for condemning hate speeches that are presumably dominating the media.
While speaking at a meeting at the National Council on Information in
Jos last week, Lai Mohammed decried the rate of hate speech and fake news being
circulated in some section of the media.
He alleged that some persons were
behind the multi-billion Naira project to discredit this government by
circulating hate speeches and fake news.
PDP has reacted to Lai Mohammed's
comment saying he is the author and sustainer of hate speeches in the country.
According to the opposition party, APC had in its quest to clinch power from
PDP in the past elections, launched hate speeches and fake news on all media
spaces and this has continued in their administration. PDP says Lai Mohammed
and indeed any of the APC leaders for that matter are not in the Position to
teach any lessons on appropriate public speeches. The party says APC should
first apologize to Nigerians for their serial lies, inciting and hate speeches
with which Nigerians were deceived into believing that they had something
to offer. Read the party's statement below
The Leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) is taken aback over the recent vituperation by the
Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in which he
accused opposition in the Country as being responsible for hate speeches,
disinformation and fake news. How convenient! This is another lie from Lai
Mohamned!! Mr. Minister is invited to review his past speeches/statements as Spokesman
of opposition ACN/APC and then he will agree with us that the APC
leaders/members are the architect and sustainers of hate speeches in our dear
Country, Nigeria.
2. In case Lai Mohammed has
forgotten, let us remind him and his Parties, the ACN & APC that in their
desperate quest to grab power by all means, organized and carried out series of
campaigns of calumny as opposition designed to mislead the public, discredit
the Person and Office of past PDP led administrations especially, that of the
immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck E. Jonathan, GCFR in order to cause
disaffection amongst Nigerians against his government.
3. Alhaji Lai Mohammed as the
Spokesman of ACN at a press conference in April 2013 raised a false alarm
alleging that the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Jonathan had
awarded an oil pipeline protection contract to serve as a smokescreen in
funding activities that would create chaos in the South-West region. Of course,
it turned out that no such contract was ever awarded by the Jonathan
Administration.
4. Still in April 2013, the ACN
Spokesman now Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
mischievously alleged that President Jonathan had issued a Presidential
Directive targeted at witch-hunting the Former Governor of Lagos State and
Leader of the ACN , Bola Tinubu in order to stop the Merger of the Party with
other political parties. This also turned out to be a hoax.
5. Also before the 2015 General
Elections, the Chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun in November 2014, vowed to
form a parallel government if the Elections were rigged. His statement was
later re-echoed by the Presidential Campaign Director-General of the APC, Mr.
Rotimi Amaechi, and now Minister for Transport. Talk about distractions,
intimidation, harrasements and hate speeches, and that defines the APC leaders
and members.
6. Let us not forget the Infamous
inflammatory statements by General Muhammadu Buhari that caused wide spread
violence and killings of Nigerians in the 2011 General Elections. The General
repeated almost the same statement on the 14th of May 2012 in Kaduna State when
some CPC members from Niger State paid him a visit. He was quoted to have
incited his supporters saying “…if what happened in 2011 should again happen in
2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in
blood.’’ To date, President Mohammadu Buhari has neither refuted the Statement
nor offer any explanation for it. What could be more hateful than such a call
for pogrom or mass murder of innocent Nigerians. The list of such hateful and
inciting speeches by the APC leaders and especially their erstwhile Spokesman
is endless. It was a period of one lie, one day. All in the desperate bid to
grab power at all cost. Now that they have the power they don't know what to do
with it.
7. Lai Mohammed and indeed any of
the APC leaders for that matter are not in the Position to teach any lessons on
appropriate public speeches. They should first apologize to Nigerians for their
serial lies, inciting and hate speeches with which our people were deceived
into believing that they had something to offer. They should then undergo the
serious ritual of self purgation without which there will be a constant relapse
into their goebbellian tactics as we continue to witness. It is so ironic that
those who haul mud at people do not ever want sand thrown at them. If you are
not ready to take the heat you better leave the kitchen.
8. Lai Mohammed's statement must
be seen for what it is: a desperate attempt to divert attention from his
government's woeful failures. When this government first assumed office we were
inundated with daily sermons of how terribly the PDP had destroyed the Economy.
Now that it appears that cliche is well worn out they must find so called hate
speeches by the Opposition to blame for their woes.
9. Our advice to the APC
Government is that it should concentrate on doing the business of the people
and to endeavor to speak the truth always. Lies can take you thus far but in
the end it cannot be an alternative to the truth.
God bless the PDP! God bless
Nigeria!!
Signed:
Prince Dayo Adeyeye
National Publicity Secretary, PDP.
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