A former Deputy National
Publicuty Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank,
has commended a report released by a U.S.-based firm, Atlantic Council’s
Digital Forensic Research Lab, for “exposing an Isreali-based political consulting
and lobbying firm named Archimedes”, for allegedly coordinating false reports
on social media against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Facebook had on Thursday banned
Archimedes from the platform over its “coordinated and deceptive behavior” as
well as conducted a sweeping takedown of dozens of accounts and hundreds of
pages primarily aimed at disrupting elections in African countries, with some
scattered activity in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Reacting to the development
through a statement on Saturday, Frank said that the world will gradually know
all the evil secret behind the declaration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as the
winner of the last presidential election.
According to Frank, one of the
pages that Facebook deleted on Thursday was filled with viral misinformation
and direct attacks on Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria. The
page’s banner image showed Abubakar as Darth Vader, the Star Wars villain,
holding up a sign reading, “Make Nigeria Worse Again.”
He also quoted the AP’s report
“that on the overall, the misleading accounts had reached some 2.8 million
users, and the pages had engaged over 5,000 followers, according to Facebook’s
estimates.”
While thanking Facebook for
bringing down the fake accounts, Frank said that “Nigerians ought to be worried
about how the APC-led government is spending huge amount of money just to
discredit the rightful winner of the 2019 presidential election, Atiku
Abubakar.
“I believe that if a lie goes on
for 20 years, truth will definitely catchup with it one day. It will not be
long before Nigerians will realise how desperate and fake President Muhammadu
Buhari is in his bid to hang onto power.”
The political activist called on
the international community to note the Associated Press’ report and the extent
of damage done to the main opposition party in Nigeria and its Presidential
candidate during the last general election.
“The AP’s report has clearly
shown the level of lies sponsored against Atiku during and after the last general
election. The campaign of calumny has not stopped but Nigerians should
henceforth disregard malicious reports in the social media against the former
VP,” Frank stated.
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