Another orchestrated smear campaign against President
Muhammadu Buhari, using some online newspapers and blogs, is on the way, the
presidency said on Friday.
According to Femi Adesina, the president’s media adviser,
the campaign will be launched anytime soon.
Waged through editorials and purported special investigative
stories, the campaign is designed to further exacerbate tension in the land.
Adesina said the campaign will portray Buhari as pandering to ethnic and other primordial tendencies, contrary to his pledge to belong to all Nigerians.
“Impeccable security findings indicate that those behind the
plot have procured online blogs and newspapers, which are to launch coordinated
publications, alleging subjugation and suppression of a particular religion and
ethnic groups.
“A specific medium has so far contacted some opinion
leaders, especially those very critical of President Buhari.
“Part of the planned publication is to make unwary readers
believe that the President has continually used the powers of his office to
shield and protect an ethnic group against crimes of murder, kidnappings, rape
and banditry in the southern, middle belt and some northern states.
“The publication will also refer Nigerians to a 58-page
document, which chronicles purported atrocities of the ethnic group in the
South since 2017, all of which it claims the Presidency has turned blind eyes
to.
“Again, the hatchet job will allege that the President has
continued to place members of his ethnic nationality in sensitive positions, so
as to confer undue advantage on them. This allegation is by no means supported
with reasonable facts and figures.
“Just on Thursday, President Buhari, while meeting with the
Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), led by Sultan of Sokoto,
Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, restated his even-handedness on the issues of
ethnicity and religion.
Said the President: “The Federal Government under my
leadership does not, and will not, allow religious prejudice or partisanship to
influence any of its decisions and policies. It is my solemn decision to be
fair and just to all segments of society.”
“Those who are bent on stoking ethnic and religious unrest
in the country remain deaf to reason, and impervious to reality. They are
hell-bent on distorting reality, and Nigerians are urged to be wary of them. It
is all about quest for power, and filthy lucre”, Adesina added.
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