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| Alh. Atiku Abubakar. |
Former Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has dissociated himself from
video purporting to be a formal declaration of his intent to contest the 2019
presidential election, calling it fake.
Reacting to the fake video which is
now in circulation, the former Vice President speaking through his media office
in Abuja, said that the video is a bad job of bad people with bad intentions.
According to Atiku, some mischief
makers are using a video clip extracted from his 2011 presidential declaration
to create a false impression that he has formally declared for the 2019
presidential election, saying that such propaganda is being deliberately
promoted by political opponents in order to create acrimony and advised those
involved in such "laughable and unintelligent propaganda of lies and
intentional mischief to find something useful to do with their time instead of
using his name to achieve their malicious political objectives."
Describing those behind the fake
video clip "as a group of incompetent and bumbling political novices who
cannot see the loopholes in their own stories", the former Vice President
advised members of the Nigerian press to be wary of uncritically lapping up
fake news materials from groups that don't care about their own credibility.
The Waziri Adamawa added that spreading false stories about
any individual politician is not within the protected boundaries of free
speech, and that the traditional media should take the first step by not
helping fake news merchants to promote their agenda.
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