“Tinubu Will Not Move Federal Capital To Lagos” – Campaign Council Alerts Public About Fake News

“Let us say with emphasis, that Asiwaju does not contemplate any such plan and will not do anything that is so ultra-unconstitutional.”, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has stated categorically in response to emerging fake news.

The Campaign Council takes the step to alert the public about the latest falsehoods by the opposition.

Providing insight into the latest plot labeled ” a multi-pronged desperate campaign of falsehoods”, the APC Campaign Council in a statement signed by Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga explained that “in one of the falsehoods being circulated, especially in the North West of the country, Tinubu is said to harbour plans to relocate the Federal Capital from Abuja to Lagos on succeeding President Muhammad Buhari from 29th May, 2023.

This misinformation campaign, according to field reports, is being given some traction by some elders on the payroll of the Peoples Democratic Party.”

The Campaign Council declared that it is “shocked that some people could contrive such egregious lie, all in the name of politics, with the intention to confuse our burgeoning support base in that part of the country.”.

The statement signed by Onanuga further explained that “the same purveyors of falsehood have also been distorting the commercialization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited by the APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The truth is that President Buhari has not privatised NNPC as planned by the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Buhari has instead made it a commercial entity, owned by all the tiers of government, in line with the Petroleum Industry Act.

In due course, the company will be in a position to declare and share dividends to all its owners, the way Aramco of Saudi Arabia and Petrobas of Brazil do”.

Insisting that, “Asiwaju does not contemplate any such plan and will not do anything that is so ultra-unconstitutional” regarding a purported plan to move the federal capital, the Campaign Council assures that “As the destined successor of President Buhari, Asiwaju Tinubu will continue the policy of the Buhari administration. Unlike Atiku, Tinubu has no plan to sell NNPC to his friends or cronies.”