By Dele Ogbodo
Following the attendant gale of mass defection of members of the ruling party to the PDP, on Tuesday,
ostensibly fueled by its recent intractible crisis, the Director of Strategic Communications of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, Mr. Festus Kenyamo SAN, has said the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and the National Chairman of APC, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, are not by any stretch of imagination at loggerheads.
In a signed statement which was made available to SHARPEDGENEWS online, on Wednesday night, he said: “Our attention has been drawn to a news item purporting that the Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Rotimi Amaechi, disparaged the Chairman of our great party, the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to the effect that he is “bad luck” to the Party.
He averred that the news item is a classic case of the much-touted “fake news” that has become a tool in the hands of desperate politicians, insisting that it is also an unsuccessful attempt to create a division between both great leaders of the party.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state without equivocation that Amaechi did not at any forum, whether in private or public, utter such words or anything close to those words in reference to Oshiomhole. He holds Oshiomhole in the highest esteem possible.”
Kenyamo added: “We have since discovered that this “fake news” was concocted, released and circulated by the sinking main opposition party. Indeed the combination of Amaechi and 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.”