By Olawale Osifeso
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has unmasked plans by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to unleash fake news and disinformation days to the election.
The Council said in a release on Sunday, 29 January, 2023, that the opposition party was brewing some evil machinations to cause disaffection days before the election.
The APC PCC raised the alarm in a statement that signed by the Director, Media and Publicity Directorate, Bayo Onanuga that, “we want to alert Nigerians to the sinister moves and orchestrated plans of the opposition PDP to unleash a wave of news especially in Hausa language, to malign, defame and de-legitimise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC before Nigerians.
“The campaign of calumny by the PDP has already been perfected with a dedicated team working day and night from the PDP National Headquarters in Wadata, Abuja.
“The party has also recruited many social media influencers to carry out the campaign of calumny by proxy”.
The APC said it uncovered this evil plot targeted to manipulate Nigerians and especially northerners to see the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in bad light as the only way for PDP and its falling presidential campaign to have a chance at the February 25 presidential election.
The statement further read, “we consider it necessary at this point to advert the minds of Nigerians to this evil plan capable of causing disharmony, ill-will and needless crisis with attendant security implications in the country.
Many parody social media account such as ‘Hausa Vanguard’, ‘Daily Trust Hausa’ have been created and also being uses to circulate fake news on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and other digital platforms”.
