2023 Elections: APC Reacts to Alleged Attack on Buhari in Kano, Sends Powerful Message to Atiku, PDP

2023 Elections: APC Reacts to Alleged Attack on Buhari in Kano, Sends Powerful Message to Atiku, PDP

  • APC has denied the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was attacked by some youths in Kano, and urged Nigerians to disregard the fake news
  • In a statement by Bayo Onanuga, the media director of the APC PCC, the ruling party described the report as the imaginary drama of the PDP
  • Onanuga said the PDP has lost touch with reality and resulted to peddling lies and fake news to stay afloat in the polity

FCT, Abuja - The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was stoned in Kano by some aggrieved youths as the imagination of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Bayo Onanuga, the director of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign council (PCC), in a statement sent to Legit.ng, said the PDP is peddling lies against President Buhari since it has lost touch with reality.

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APC speaks on alleged attack on President Buhari in Kano

According to the statement, the presidential campaign of the PDP is crumbling and the party has nothing with which to convince Nigerians to give it their votes.

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The party then urged Nigerians to disregard the report as it is fake news emanating from the PDP that is "suffering the agony of violating its own rules on power rotation."

Onanuga added that the PDP has been sponsoring fake news against the APC's presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and trying to create disharmony in the ruling party.

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The statement reads in part:

"The PDP is a drowning party feverishly clawing at any straw of lies and lashing out in all delusional directions to keep afloat - but sink it will."

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The APC added that the PDP which has been a strong critic of President Buhari recently turned to his mouthpiece because of its planned propaganda.

APC reacts to tribunal sacking PDP's Ademola Adeleke in Osun

Legit.ng earlier reported that the APC has reacted to the tribunal ruling that sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke of the PDP in Osun and declared Gboyega Oyetola as the authentic winner of the July 2022 election in the state.

Felix Morka, the spokesperson of the ruling party described the judgment as the reflection of true democracy and the will of the people of Osun.

The tribunal has sacked Ademola Adeleke of the PDP after establishing that there was over-voting at some polling units.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng