Abuja – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar have descended on All Progressives Congress (APC), Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed over the origin of fake news.
While PDP advised the APC and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to seek forgiveness from Nigerians for purveying fake news in the country, the former Vice President on his part described Lai Mohammed as the high priest of the APC cult of fake news.
PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said that Lai Mohammed, should lead the government and his APC to do the needful, instead of the lame attempts at whitewashing the government and his party, even when Nigerians know that they are behind the escalation of fake news in Nigeria.
“Nigerians are aware that the phenomenon of fake news exploded to the current frightening proportion in Nigeria due to the desperation of the APC, whose spokespersons deliberately promoted outright lies, hate speech, insults and threats of violence as tools to gain political power, during the run-up to the 2015 general elections.
“The APC and its officials literarily fouled our media space by deliberately entrenching falsehood, fabrications, uncouth language and abuses as ‘acceptableâ€
modes of engagement, particularly in the social media.
modes of engagement, particularly in the social media.“The APC and the Buhari Federal Government misled and have been misleading the media and the public by stating outright lies, half truths and fabrications in their statements and claims about governance, individuals and the opposition.
“Nigerians are witnesses to several false performance claims by the APC-led Federal Government including phony political cumming economic recovery and infrastructure development claims, which they project to be factual, even when the reality points to the contrary.
“Recently, the APC purveyed fake news in its declaration of President Buhari as winner of APC presidential primary with fictitious 14.8 million votes, even when there was no contest and no ballot cast.
“The deliberate deployment of fake news by the APC in its attempt to smear the PDP and its members, ended up demarketing our country in the international arena and eroded the confidence the world had on our markets and business concerns, resulting in the current dearth of investments, collapse of businesses, job losses and drop in national productivity.
“The APC should be remorseful and realize that their use of fake news has devastated our economic, political and social development by triggering fear, public panic and uncertainty; disrupting production, distribution and marketing chains and weakening foreign and local investors†confidence in our system.
confidence in our system.“The PDP therefore counsels the Minister of Information and Culture, the Buhari Presidency and the APC to immediately apologize to Nigerians for purveying fake news and discontinue their shameless enterprise of beguiling the unsuspecting public with impunity.”
Atiku, in a statement by his Presidential Campaign Organisation wondered how anyone would take “the word of a confirmed liar, as Lai Mohammed, for the Gospel truth is beyond us.
“To show you how unreliable Lai Mohammed is, at the lecture in the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) with the topic, “Nigeriaâ€s National Unity: Towards Participation and Shared Valuesâ€�, which was his main reason for going to London, Lai Mohammed said: ‘we do not need to do anything extra because we have delivered on all our promises and Nigerians are quite happy and satisfied with the government’.
s National Unity: Towards Participation and Shared Valuesâ€�, which was his main reason for going to London, Lai Mohammed said: ‘we do not need to do anything extra because we have delivered on all our promises and Nigerians are quite happy and satisfied with the government’.“How the minister of information of a government that has turned Nigeria into the world headquarters for extreme poverty can say that is beyond imagination. Is Mr. Mohammed claiming that his party promised and delivered poverty and Nigerians are satisfied with this world record poverty?
“If Lai Mohammed can lie openly at Chatham House in front of the international press and diplomatic corps, is it a big thing for him to lie about his accounts with the international media?
“The true position of things is that ever since the emergence of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party after the elective congress of the party on October 6-7, the international media has been agog with praise for Mr. Abubakar and hope for a new dawn in Nigeria.”
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Lai Mohammed Is High Priest of APC’s Fake News Cult – Atiku, PDP
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