The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council says there was no meeting between Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and
Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN).
The campaign council was reacting to reports that Tinubu met
with the CJN in the UK.
In a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, media director of
the campaign council, said there is an attempt to create doubt about the
legitimacy of the election that produced Tinubu as president-elect.
Onanuga said the president-elect is currently in Paris,
France, and not in the UK.
“The story was a pure
concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts
and public distrust about the legitimacy of our recent election, which was won
by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” the media director said.
“We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine
meeting between the president-elect and the respected chief justice of our
country, anywhere. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and
authenticity.
“To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant
to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left
Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheelchair to board a plane.
“The president-elect
left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or
secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with such widely
disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?
“We can confirm that the president-elect, who left Nigeria
Tuesday, has not been in London. He is right now in France to have a deserved
rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022.
“He will go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca
for the lesser Hajj.”
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