From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
The Director of Media and Publicity, Kogi State APC Campaign Council
Kingsley Femi Fanwo has described the purported withdrawal and
support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu spurious and malicious.
“Our attention has been drawn to a spurious, malicious and badly delivered hatchet job on the front page of the Sunday Tribune of January 22, 2023, saying Governor Yahaya Bello has withdrawn his support for Ahmed Tinibu presidential ambition.”
The publication according to him was done in bad faith to create distrust, acrimony and chaos in the party by people who are desperately trying to disparage the unbending commitment of the Governor to the success of the All Progressives Congress in the Presidential election.
The Director who refuted this in a press statement in Lokoja stressed that Governor Yahaya Bello’s unflinching commitment to Tinibu’s campaign is not in doubt among committed stakeholders of the APC at all levels adding that Bello is constantly on the drawing board, galvanizing Kogites and youths across Nigeria to massively support the man he calls the President-in-Waiting.
He said the synergy between Gov. Bello and Tinibu would definitely not go down well with open and veiled detractors of our Presidential candidate, who according to him would go to any length to paint a picture of crisis where there is absolutely none.
He pointed out that Governor Yahaya Bello has effectively mobilized Kogites to deliver not less than 95% Kogi votes to the Presidential Candidate of the party, APC stressing that those who want to share in the glory of the impending landslide victory without contributing to the efforts, are hiding behind “the evils of journalistic anonymity” to cause disaffection.
“The Governor remains the only known contestant in the Presidential primaries to have donated his campaign secretariat to APC candidate, which is being used by the youth directorate of the campaign till today.”
” We however wish to call on the media to avoid being tools in the hands of desperate politicians in their efforts to assassinate the characters of well meaning Nigerians.”
