Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,
said yesterday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not happy
with the success of the nation's military and the federal government
in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgents.
Fani-Kayode, in a statement he issued in Abuja, said "what is really
giving the APC a headache is their failed expectation that President
Jonathan's government would be unable to subdue the deadly activities
of the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-eastern part of the country.
"The APC had field days attacking the government on the issue of
insurgency, hardly aware of the determination of our presidential
candidate, President Jonathan, to end the problem once and for all.
"So far, the Nigerian military, in collaboration with the West African
forces, had been recording unprecedented success in the campaign
against Boko Haram insurgents.
"The military has turned up surprises in their anti-Boko Haram
campaigns so far with the ability to recover all the territories
hitherto lost to the insurgents in Adamawa and Yobe, with only a few
communities more to recover in Borno State."
Fani-Kayode accused the APC of planning to hire foreign journalists
and procure the services of foreign media houses to discredit and
disparage the achievements of the military and the federal government
under President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said, "This is to bring to the notice of the good people of
Nigerians that the APC is now engaged in a last minute effort to hire
foreign writers to discredit and disparage the government of President
Goodluck Jonathan and the achievements he has so far recorded as we
march towards March 28 presidential election.
"It has always been the stock in trade of the APC to run to the
international media for support after failing to convince Nigerians
that it has the credibility and capacity to withstand our presidential
candidate in the coming election.
"Past efforts by the APC to use the international media against our
president had failed and will continue to collapse like a pack of
cards.
"This latest move by the APC is coming against the backdrop of the
general disenchantment against them and their leaders caused by the
broadcast TV documentary, "Unmasking the Real Tinubu", which exposed
how their national leader, Bola Tinubu, used his office as governor
and the office of his successor, Babatunde Fashola, to amass
monumental wealth in Lagos.
"Until the TV documentary, the opposition had field days denigrating
the PDP, using the mantra of corruption as a tool. By now, Nigerians
are properly schooled on which party holds the banner of corruption in
the most sordid and absurd manner."
--Leadership
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