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With five days to go before the March 11 governorship election in Rivers, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Siminalayi Fubara, the candidate of the PDP, is the dark horse in the race. And the opposition and naysayers are having a hard time taking that in!
Siminalayi
Fubara has come out of the gates strong, campaigning on a platform of improved
infrastructure and education, and has quickly gained the support of the people.
He has also gained momentum with his grassroots approach to campaigning,
galvanizing the support of local communities.
Like
a snake with its head already cut off, but still fighting frantically for its
life, the opposition can see clearly the handwriting on the wall, how much
Rivers people have accepted SIminalayi Fubara and have rejected them, and their
inconsequential antics, like sore losers, they have now resorted to propaganda.
They
are attempting to spread false information and discredit the candidate with the
people's mandate, Simiminalayi Fubara, in order to gain favor with the public.
However, the public has already seen through their tactics and the opposition's
efforts are futile.
Simiminalayi
Fubara has a long record of public service and has consistently demonstrated
his commitment to the people he represents. As such, his constituency, Rivers
state as a whole, is well aware of his record and can see through any attempts
to manipulate or mislead them.
The
opposition has tried every possible means to discredit Fubara. Their recent
effort is to resort to propaganda. In order to deceive Rivers voters and other
Nigerians for political reasons, they now fabricate fake news using the name of
the Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
The
opposition is desperate to create confusion and fear in the minds of voters in
order to discredit the Governor and turn the people against him. They are using
the power of fake news to spread lies and misinformation in order to achieve
their political goals.
But
as always, they have failed already!
All
of this is aimed at creating a setback for the candidacy of SIminalayi Fubara,
who is believed to have been favored by Governor Wike as a credible candidate
to succeed him in office. This is believed to be an attempt by the opposition
to weaken Fubara's credibility in the eyes of the electorate, in order to
prevent him from being elected the next governor.
They
plan to use Governor Wike as collateral damage for Fubara's candidacy.
They
have so far found that their easiest method is to scour old fake videos that
have been discredited in the past, edit them, and circulate them as if they are
current and true videos. This allows them to take advantage of people's lack of
knowledge of the content's history and spread false information quickly and
easily.
This
allows them to spread their messages faster and more widely. They are also able
to make the videos appear more credible by connecting them to current events or
issues.
Firstly,
they manipulated an old audio clip from 2016 and circulated the same in
cyberspace as a current clip involving the governor and another individual just
to tarnish the image of the governor prior to the last Presidential Election.
It
is likely that the people behind this fake news were hoping to use the sympathy
of Rivers voters to improve their political standing and discredit the
governor. By creating a false story about a family member, they were attempting
to delegitimize the governor and cause disruption in the political process
Their
main objective was to harvest the sympathy of a certain section of Rivers
voters. Secondly, after the shellacking they got at last Saturday’s
presidential election, they angrily placed another fake news on the internet claiming
that the governor’s son in the US had been mortally harmed – a lie taken from
the pit of hell since the governor has no child in the US.
With
the Presidential election behind us, these individuals have turned back to
creating more fake news. This time, they took an old video clip of 26th
February 2019 in which Col. Aminu Iliyasu, the then Deputy Director, Army
Public Relations, 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt in which the officer
raised spurious allegations against Governor Wike followed the faceoff between
the governor and the Army over the governor’s courageous resistance to the
military that was bent on rigging the 2019 governorship election in favor of
the All Progressives Congress (APC).
What
these persons have done is take that video clip, cut it out of context, and
circulate the same on social media. This is done to portray the governor as
someone who is planning to compromise the military for the forthcoming
governorship election. Their insidious efforts are shameful, criminal, and evil.
The
public is therefore enjoined to jettison this fake news being spread, their
plan is to deceive gullible people, because the governorship election of March
11, is now near.
Regardless
of their antics, Siminalayi Fubara Remains Unstoppable! The governorship
election this weekend remains his to win!
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