APC Accuses Atiku, ADC of Plotting to Discredit Tinubu’s Campaign Flag-off in Kaduna With Fake News.
Similarly, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace development, Festus Keyamo, said Atiku was jittery over the flag-off of the presidential campaign of APC in Kaduna because he was afraid of losing the bulk votes which he was hoping to get from the north.
But is swift reaction, the ADC accused the APC of using allegations of fake news to divert attention from the economic hardship Nigerians were facing under President Bola Tinubu.
The APC-PCC in a statement issued statement by its spokesperson, Mr Dele Alake said it uncovered a “well-orchestrated, devious plan” to misinform the public through AI, deepfake videos and counterfeit documents targeted at the APC rally, President Tinubu, Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State and APC leaders.
According to the council, the plot began with the circulation of a picture of a security vehicle on routine patrol near an APC campaign billboard in Kaduna metropolis, which was twisted to claim security agents were deployed to protect APC billboards. The council said the story was planted in a national newspaper and subsequently shared by Atiku on his social media handles. Alake added that the second leg was the circulation online of a fake letter purportedly written by Sani to the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, on the purported release of N2.3 trillion by the Kaduna State Government to host the rally. He added: “We are still at a loss as to how anyone can imagine and concoct this senseless and utterly baseless lie that defies logic and basic common sense.
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