Atiku Abubakar, a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claims that the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign spread ten falsehoods about the PDP in a single week.
Before to the presidential election on February 25, Tinubu's campaign will spread at least 1,000 lies, according to Atiku's Special Adviser on Public Media, Mr. Phrank Shaibu.
Four of these lies, according to Shaibu, were exposed in Sokoto, where the APC claimed that the deputy governor and 11 commissioners had defected to the party in an effort to win over PDP supporters for their rally.
Shaibu claimed that the image of the Sokoto rally shared on social media by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, and the head of NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, was a fake and a component of a larger scheme to fool Nigerians ahead of the elections.
He explained, "Last week, while we were attending the Atiku Abubakar presidential rally in Kano State, we received hundreds of calls following the APC Presidential Council's distribution of a bogus letter indicating that Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Manir Dan'Iya, had resigned from the PDP. Regrettably, a lot of reliable publications published it without verification just for Dan'Iya to refute it.
"Campaigners for the APC also claimed that 11 Commissioners had joined the PDP. This too proved to be untrue. It appears that the goal was to attract PDP supporters to their unsuccessful rally. This too proved to be untrue.
"Despite the presence of President Muhammadu Buhari, who Tinubu has been pleading with for support, the Sokoto event had a low turnout. Festus Keyamo, a senior counsel and former EFCC prosecutor, tweeted a picture of a large festival in Chicago and misidentified it as the Sokoto protest in order to save face. Yes, this is shameful. How did the powerful fall?
Femi Fani-Kayode, who oversees the APC campaign's social media presence, has also actively spread false information, according to Shaibu.
Fani-assertion Kayode's that Atiku met with active generals in Abuja, he said, was another "story by moonlight."
Shaibu said, "Atiku has been in Yola since Friday. He was in Bauchi on Wednesday, Kano on Thursday. A fundamental tenet of logic is that someone cannot be in two locations at once. Regrettably, there is no intellect at all in the APC's lies.
He also discussed the absurd accusations made by Tinubu's campaign that Atiku was responsible for the dollar and gasoline shortages.