APC calls for arrest of PDP National Publicity Secretary over ‘fake news’ on Buhari’s attack in Kano

The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately arrest the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Debo Ologunagba over his fake report on an attack on President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano on Tuesday.

The APC PCC in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga said just like it alerted the public earlier, the fake news being circulated by the PDP was to pitch its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje against President Buhari.

It said contrary to the fake reports, Buhari was well received in Kano where he commissioned many projects undertaken by the Ganduje-led government.

The statement reads in part: “We were not surprised to read of the imaginary attack on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria being peddled by the Peoples Democratic Party since the party has nothing tangible to tell Nigerians from its crumbling Presidential Campaign.

“This invented attack on President Muhammadu Buhari must have happened only in the fertile imagination of PDP National Publicity Secretary, one Debo Ologunagba.

“Nigerians should disregard this fake news from a party that has lost touch with reality and suffering the agony of violating its own rules on power rotation.

“Just as it has been masterminding fake news against the APC presidential candidate and trying vainly to cause disharmony in the APC family, we believe the party may have planned to embarrass President Buhari in Kano and then put the blame on host Governor Ganduje and Tinubu.

“This is  because PDP  has of recent morphed from being a Buhari virulent critc to strangely becoming  a  Buhari spokesperson ! The last time it issued a self-serving misinterpretation of Asíwájú’s statement in Abeokuta as an attack on President Buhari.

“It should be quite obvious to Nigerians that the knowledge of impending defeat of PDP  at the coming presidential poll has pushed the party and its candidate into frenzied hallucinatory mode of mindless, ridiculous, ludicrous litany of lies and fabrications against APC  and its candidate.

“Contrary to PDP fabrication, President Buhari was warmly received in Kano State today by the good people and government of the state where he commissioned eight  hugely impactful projects including overhead bridge with underpass and a cancer centre.

“On Sunday, we alerted the nation to the plot by PDP to orchestrate and execute many evil plans to defame, ridicule and delegitimise President Muhammadu Buhari and our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“Nigerians of goodwill would have seen by now that we didn’t raise false alarm in our statement issued on 29 January , 2023 where we detailed the evil machinations of PDP and their hirelings.

“Only the evil mind of PDP could conceive an attack on a President of Nigeria.

“It is not impossible that PDP through its paid agents would organise miscreants to stage-manage an attack. But  we are sure the security agencies are capable of foiling any planned attack on the President and anyone who is caught in such unholy plot now or in the future will have himself or herself to blame.

“We call on the security agencies especially the Police and Department of State Services  to immediately arrest PDP National Publicity Secretary for interrogation over this imaginary  attack.”