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ICYMI: Tinubu denies meeting Joe Biden, the US President, blasts Peter Obi followers
- Tinubu has denied meeting US president Joe Biden, denied the phot trending online
- He debunked the rumor to relocate Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory from Abuja to Lagos if he becomes president.
Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied meeting with Joe Biden, the president of the United States.
Recall that a picture of the APC presidential candidate meeting with Biden in the US had gone popular on social media.
However, Tinubu claimed that the widely circulated photo of him with Biden was a hoax and should be ignored. He charged that Peter Obi’s supporters, who are running for president as the Labour Party, LP, circulated the image.
Through Bayo Onanuga, the APC PCC Director of Media and Publicity, Tinubu said that Obi’s supporters altered the popular photo.
While discussing with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Onanuga said: “A viral photograph showing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and U.S President, Joe Biden in talks at the White House is the latest in the series of misinformation being dished out by the political opposition.
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“We cannot just fathom the purpose of the mischief and the falsehood which emanated from the rabid followers of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate.
“The apparently photoshopped image surfaced Tuesday night, on the heels of news that Asiwaju will embark on a foreign trip this weekend.”
According to Onanuga, Tinubu was in Abuja and not the US. But he did reveal that the APC presidential contender will be visiting the US this weekend.
Onanuga said Tinubu was scheduled to fly to Bayelsa on Thursday for a rally.
“His first port of call will be Chatham House in London, where he will speak on his Action Plan for Nigeria,” he said.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has debunked a rumor it credited to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party that its candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Bola Tinubu, is planning to relocate Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory from Abuja to Lagos if he becomes president.
The Tinubu campaign council described the rumor as a “misinformation campaign” being promoted in the North-West by “some elders on the payroll of the Peoples Democratic Party.”
This is contained in a press statement signed by the Director, Media & Publicity, APC PCC, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday.
The statement stressed that Tinubu had no plans to relocate the country’s seat of power from its current Abuja location, adding that he would not do anything deemed to be against the constitution of the nation.
The statement read, “The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council hereby alerts Nigerians about (to) the latest insidious campaign in some parts of the country against our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“After exhausting their arsenal of calumnies and character assassination against Tinubu, the opposition PDP and their surrogate Labour Party have begun a multi-pronged desperate campaign of falsehoods.
“In one of the falsehoods being circulated, especially in the North-West of the country, Tinubu is said to harbor plans to relocate the Federal Capital from Abuja to Lagos on succeeding President Muhammadu 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.
“We are shocked that some people could contrive such an egregious lie, all in the name of politics, with the intention to confuse our burgeoning support base in that part of the country.
“Let us say with emphasis that Asiwaju does not contemplate any such plan and will not do anything that is so ultra-unconstitutional.