PHOTO:You can try, but you cannot destroy my relationship with Buhari: Tinubu to PDP
The National
Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC,) Bola Tinubu has accused some
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of plotting to destroy his relationship
with President Muhammadu Buhari.Tinubu said the plot, which started
six weeks
ago is now in full swing.
Tinubu in a
statement through his media office and signed by his media aide, Sunday Dare,
said he has learnt of a concerted, wilful campaign tagged ‘destroy the
reputation of Tinubu and his relationship with Buhari,’” which he has been
monitoring for six weeks.
He said most of
those behind the act were aggrieved members of the PDP that had failed to
recover from the defeat in the 2015 general elections.
The statement
reads:
As part of this ugly plot to cultivate the worst of lies against
the national leader of the APC, several blogs and online sites recruited to
launch this smear campaign have manufactured stories to advance this sinister
plan to taint the public mind with gross lies disguised as news reports and
interviews.
“This campaign,
now in full and desperate swing, involves a blatant violation of the minimal
standards of journalism and social media ethics.
“Without
conscience or any hint of a sense of morality, the lie in the most outlandish
fashion by attributing statements to Tinubu which he never made.
“ They
concoct interviews that were never given and assert positions that he would
never hold or endorse. They go about putting words in his mouth, contending
that he was in places that he never was, and reporting falsely his movements
and meetings.
“They recently have trespassed another
boundary of proper behavior by engaging in cloning letterhead of the Tinubu
Media Office and issues their libelous statements under such letterhead. This
filth is now being circulated in the social media in a malicious attempt to tie
him to the Dasuki money. The writers of these lies wilfully seek to mislead,
confuse and deceive the public.
“Such fallacious
headlines such as: ‘Reasons Why I collected N9 million-Tinubu’ and
‘I will not
return N9 million –Tinubu’. ‘I am afraid PDP will stop Buhari in 2009 –
Tinubu,’ are being paraded.
“Try as hard as
they can, the creators of these false tales and misleading headlines will fail
miserably. Their stories cannot stand up to the slightest scrutiny. They are
patently false and we condemn in the strongest terms those involved in this
anti-Tinubu racket.
“While these
fellows may think themselves cunning, they might have outwitted their very
selves. In writing these stories, they have committed clear libel. In abusing
the media office letterhead and name, their misrepresentations amount to
forgery.
“They laugh now
but walk on thin ice. Soon, that ice will break and they shall have nothing but
the weight of their wrongdoing to blame for their predicament that will soon
come.
“The individuals
behind the plot are mostly scarred PDP elements made frightened by Buhari’s
anti-corruption campaign. They direct these falsehoods at Tinubu in the futile
mission of trying to drive a wedge between the President and Tinubu, to disrupt
the progress being made against corruption and to destabilise the APC.
“But their PDP
is already something by-gone, buried under the mass of its corruption and
wrongdoing. They fight for a cause that has no cause. They are mercenaries of
all the ills and defects that the people want excised from our body politic.
Thus, we must do the people a public service.
“After
identifying the bloggers and paid hatchet writers perpetrating these wrongs,
the Tinubu Media Office is taking the step to alert the public to beware and be
wary of hatchet writers, false prophets and paid bloggers.
“The Tinubu
Media Office has the names and online sites recruited for this campaign and
will not hesitate to make them known if they do not desist from their negative
mission.”
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