Lai Mohammed is High Priest of APC cult of fake news –Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Campaign Organisation has descended hard on the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over his alleged claim on the former vice president.

Atiku’s campaign group described the minister as the “High Priest of the All Progressives Congress (APC) cult of fake news,” and wondered “how anyone would take the word of a confirmed liar.”

The group was reacting to a news story in a Nigerian newspaper on Saturday where Lai Mohammed was said to have claimed that international media queried the emergence of Atiku as presidential candidate over his suspicious source of wealth.

Atiku Campaign Organisation said, “The attention of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation has been drawn to a sponsored news story on Vanguard newspapers of Saturday October 20, 2018, with the headline: ‘2019: International media query emergence of Atiku over suspicious source of wealth.’

“In the said report, not one international media was quoted. Rather, it was the notoriously dishonest All Progressives Congress minister of information, Lai Mohammed, who was quoted alleging that that was what the international media told him.

“How anyone would take the word of a confirmed liar, as Lai Mohammed, for the Gospel truth is beyond us.

“To show you how unreliable Lai Mohammed is, at the lecture in the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) with the topic, ‘Nigeria’s National Unity: Towards Participation and Shared Values,’ which was his main reason for going to London, Lai Mohammed said: ‘We do not need to do anything extra because we have delivered on all our promises and Nigerians are quite happy and satisfied with the government.’

“How the minister of information of a government that has turned Nigeria into the world headquarters for extreme poverty can say that is beyond imagination. Is Mr. Mohammed claiming that his party promised and delivered poverty and Nigerians are satisfied with this world record poverty?

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“If Lai Mohammed can lie openly at Chatham House in front of the international press and diplomatic corps, is it a big thing for him to lie about his accounts with the international media?

“The true position of things is that ever since the emergence of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party after the elective congress of the party on October 6-7, the international media has been agog with praise for Mr. Abubakar and hope for a new dawn in Nigeria,” the group statement read in part.

 

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