Tinubu Uncovers Plot To Smear His Name

The national leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has
uncovered a plot to smear his reputation and
destroy the cordial relationship he has with
President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a Tuesday
statement by his media office and signed by
Sunday Akin Dare, the former two-time governor
of Lagos State said the plot began six weeks
ago.
The statement read: “As part of this ugly plot to
cultivate the worst of lies against the national
leader of the APC, several blogs and online
sites recruited to launch this smear campaign
have manufactured stories to advance this
sinister plan to taint the public mind with gross
lies disguised as news reports and interviews.
“This campaign, now in full and desperate
swing, involves a blatant violation of the
minimal standards of journalism and social
media ethics.
“Without conscience or any hint of a sense of
morality, the lie in the most outlandish fashion
by attributing statements to Tinubu which he
never made.
“They concoct interviews that were never given
and assert positions that he would never hold
or endorse. They go about putting words in his
mouth, contending that he was in places that
he never was, and reporting falsely his
movements and meetings.
“They recently have trespassed another
boundary of proper behavior by engaging in
cloning letterhead of the Tinubu Media Office
and issues their libelous statements under such
letterhead. This filth is now being circulated in
the social media in a malicious attempt to tie
him to the Dasuki money. The writers of these
lies wilfully seek to mislead, confuse and
deceive the public.
“Such fallacious headlines such as: ‘Reasons
Why I collected N9 million-Tinubu’ and ‘I will
not return N9 million –Tinubu’. ‘I am afraid PDP
will stop Buhari in 2009 – Tinubu,’ are being
paraded.
“Try as hard as they can, the creators of these
false tales and misleading headlines will fail
miserably. Their stories cannot stand up to the
slightest scrutiny. They are patently false and
we condemn in the strongest terms those
involved in this anti-Tinubu racket.
“While these fellows may think themselves
cunning, they might have outwitted their very
selves. In writing these stories, they have
committed clear libel. In abusing the media
office letterhead and name, their
misrepresentations amount to forgery.
“They laugh now but walk on thin ice. Soon,
that ice will break and they shall have nothing
but the weight of their wrongdoing to blame for
their predicament that will soon come.
“The individuals behind the plot are mostly
scarred PDP elements made frightened by
Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign. They direct
these falsehoods 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.
“After identifying the bloggers and paid hatchet
writers perpetrating these wrongs, the Tinubu
Media Office is taking the step to alert the
public to beware and be wary of hatchet
writers, false prophets and paid bloggers.
“The Tinubu Media Office has the names and
online sites recruited for this campaign and will
not hesitate to make them known if they do not
desist from their negative mission.”