February 21, (THEWILL) – The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), has described the alleged throwing of naira notes at a crowd by its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as fake news
The Lagos APC in a release, signed by its State Publicity Secretary, Hon. Seye Oladejo, said the story is nothing, but a lie from the pit of hell.
APC said, “Dazed by the phenomenal success of Lagos grand rally held Tuesday, (February 21), frustrated political opponents have resorted to planting fictional story of Naira-throwing by our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
“In a currently trending post, the orchestrated report purports that Asiwaju Tinubu threw wads of bank-notes to cheering crowd at Oshodi, as his motorcade rode past from Lagos airport enroute Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
“It is nothing but a lie from the pit of hell.
“It is part of an ongoing well-oiled campaign of calumny in a compromised section of the media to project Asiwaju in bad lights at a time millions of Nigeria are unable to access their hard-earned cash deposited in the banks. Asiwaju has championed the cause of long-suffering Nigerians that they be allowed to spend old bank notes pending when CBN is able to make adequate bank notes available. So, where will Asiwaju have seen new notes to be throwing on Lagos highways?
“Ordinarily, we would have ignored this infantile lie given its provenance (one of the cheap bloggers hired by political opponents now traumatised by APC’s imminent victory on February 25). But we chose to make this brief statement for the sake of the gullible, who might be deceived by such cheap spin.
“A closer look at the accompanying short video (attached to the referenced fake report) will clearly reveal that two APC leaders are the ones actually throwing branded APC face caps and leaflets to cheering crowd. Certainly not Naira notes.”
APC urges its supporters and all right-thinking Nigerians to remain calm and vote Asiwaju Tinubu in the Saturday election.
AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
