The Director, Strategic
Communications of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Festus Keyamo on
Wednesday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was desperate and frustrated.
Keyamo said Abubakar’s alleged
frustration of losing on Saturday was responsible for his claim that President
Muhammadu Buhari was inciting violence during APC campaign in Zamfara.
In a statement he personally
signed, the Senior lawyer insisted that Buhari never incited violence in
Zamfara, stressing that the president’s comment was quoted out of context.
Keyamo cautioned the Waziri
Adamawa against using his desperation to return to power to set Nigeria ablaze
through falsehood.
According to Keyamo: “Typical of
the PDP and Atiku’s Campaign team, they have continued in their favourite
pastime of peddling falsehood, scaremongering and misinformation. This time,
the candidate of the main opposition himself, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, sensing a
comprehensive defeat this Saturday and out of frustration, threw caution to the
wind in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday, February 11, 2019, when he
alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari called for violence when he campaigned
in Zamfara State.
“Nothing can be farther from the
truth. The Hausa word the President used in Zamfara, which has been taken out
of context, is “fitna”. Incidentally all our Hausa language scholars have said
the word means different things: it means distress, trial, affliction or
temptation. It can also be used to describe rebellion or uprising.
“In this case, President Buhari
was actually weighing in on the joke told very often of recent in the North
that due to the rice boom, farmers have embarked on pilgrimage and the marrying
of more wives. So, what the President meant was actually a joke deliberately
taken out of context: he simply told the crowd to ensure they eat very well
because of the rice boom before they can contemplate giving in to those
temptations.
“Even in some private meetings
with our campaign team, the President has always commented on this joke. Sadly,
out of desperation, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has decided to peddle falsehood.
“We urge Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to
realize that it is God Almighty that gives power and takes power. He should not
use his palpable desperation to return to power (in order to sell Nigeria to
his “friends” and to make them rich) to set this nation ablaze by outright
falsehood.”
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