The Peoples Democratic Party has asked the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to apologise to Nigerians for
allegedly misleading the nation and heating up the polity with unfounded
security breach allegations against the party and its Presidential candidate,
Atiku Abubakar.
The party said that with the assurances on Monday, that the
nation was safe for the Presidential inauguration, the minister had further
exposed the fact that he, acting for the Federal Government, only conjured
claims to create the impression that the PDP and Atiku had set security
breaches against the Presidential inauguration.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbondiyan, claimed that the allegations “have vanished like what they
are – phantoms!”
“It is indeed lamentable that in its desperation to secure
acceptance from Nigerians and confer legitimacy to the outcome of a rigged election,
the Buhari administration would manufacture and purvey fake news to the public,
only for Nigerians to learn from the same Minister of Information and Culture,
that his earlier claims against the PDP and our Presidential candidate were not
based on any concrete evidence but, according to him, on having “no reasons to
doubt” claims by other individuals.”
“Moreover, the minister’s claims that he relied on certain
alarms fell flat as no agency in the country had ever accused the PDP, as a
political party, or our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of “doing
everything possible to sabotage the Buhari Administration, generally overheat
the polity and make Nigeria seemingly ungovernable” as claimed by Lai
Mohammed.”
The opposition said it had become clear that the whole
essence of the misleading allegation was to heat up the system, attempt to cow
democratic voices, divert public discourse from the rigging of the Presidential
election and scare the party and its Presidential candidate from pursuing its
stolen Presidential mandate at the court.
“We also have fears that Alhaji Lai Mohammed could have made
those wild claims in a bid to pave the way to frame, harass, arrest and detain
some opposition figures on trump-up charges.
“Such antics have failed as Nigerians have seen through them
and are resolute, behind Atiku Abubakar, in the determination to retrieve his
mandate in the court and no form of blackmail and intimidation will detract
from that resolve.
“By his fabricated claims, the Information Minister only
succeeded in further demarketing our dear nation in the international arena,
causing more damage to investors’ confidence in our system and exposing this
administration as a purveyor of fake news.
“The PDP, therefore, invites Alhaji Lai Mohammed to apologize
to the nation and desist from such acts of incitement.”
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