The President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation said it is not true that the Director-General of the organisation, Rotimi Amaechi, disparaged the Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole to the effect that he is “bad luck” to the Party.
A statement by the Director, Strategic Communications of the organisation, Festus Keyamo, said the report was a “fake news” sponsored by desperate politicians.
He described it as an unsuccessful attempt to create a division between both great leaders of the Party.
Keyamo wrote: “For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state without equivocation that Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi did not at any forum, whether in private or public, utter such words or anything close to those words in reference to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He holds Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in the highest esteem possible.
“We have since discovered that this ‘fake news’ was concocted, released and circulated by the sinking main opposition party. Indeed the combination of Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is an obvious nightmare to them.
“From our intelligence sources, we wish to alert the general public that as the campaigns draw closer, many of such ‘fake news’ would be released and circulated by the opposition that is presently clutching at straws and harvesting chaff to survive. For them blackmail, outright lies, falsehood and now ‘fake news’ have become their campaign strategy.
“For us, we shall continue to alert the general public anytime such ‘fake news’ is released and urge them to continue to ignore such stories. However, on our part, we are set to run an issue-based campaign.”