The National Leader of
the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says there is a deliberate
plot by some individuals to rub his name in the mud through fictitious reports
in various blogs and the social media.
He said the
smear campaign was tagged, ‘Destroy the reputation of Tinubu and his
relationship with Buhari’.
Tinubu said
this in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Sunday Dare, on Tuesday.
He said most
of those behind the act were aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party
that had failed to recover from the defeat in the 2015 election.
Tinubu
alleged that some of them were being probed for corruption and had decided to
push him into the controversy to whip up public sympathy.
He said,
“The individuals behind the plot are mostly scared PDP elements made frightened
by the Buhari anti-corruption campaign. They direct this falsehood 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.”
The former
governor of Lagos State said he never granted any interview regarding President
Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to run for re-election in 2019.
He also
denied reports that he partook in the $2.1bn arms scam.
Tinubu said
he had a list of the blogs that were carrying the false news and would soon
expose their sponsors.
No comments:
Post a Comment