{"id":66839,"date":"2019-05-23T05:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66839"},"modified":"2019-05-23T05:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:59:50","slug":"coup-scare-lai-mohammed-lied-he-should-apologize-to-nigerians-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/coup-scare-lai-mohammed-lied-he-should-apologize-to-nigerians-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"COUP SCARE: Lai Mohammed Lied, He Should Apologize To\u00a0 Nigerians-PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-3255286650968328550\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, lied to<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">Nigerians with baseless security breach allegations against the Peoples<br \/>\nDemocratic Party, PDP, and Atiku Abubakar, it&#8217;s presidential candidate<br \/>\nin the February 23 elections, according to Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman<br \/>\nof the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed had earlier leveled an allegation that bordered on treason on<br \/>\nthe PDP and Atiku alledging that were trying to scuttle the inauguration<br \/>\nof President Muhammadu Buhari come May29.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the contradiction Ologbodiyan, the PDP spokesman, said the<br \/>\nMinister&#8217;s doublespeak has shown him to be a man given to fabrications<br \/>\nin order to win popular sympathy for Buhari-led administration.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP stated that for the Minister to turn around to assure that the<br \/>\ncountry was safe after raising the initial false alarm, showed that his<br \/>\nclaims were not based on any concrete evidence other than having \u201cno<br \/>\nreason to doubt\u201d claims by other individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said, \u201cMoreover, the Minister\u2019s claims that he relied on<br \/>\ncertain alarms fell flat as no agency in the country had ever accused<br \/>\nthe PDP, as a political party, or our presidential candidate, Atiku<br \/>\nAbubakar, of \u2018doing everything possible to sabotage the Buhari<br \/>\nAdministration, generally overheat the polity and make Nigeria seemingly<br \/>\nungovernable\u2019 as claimed by Lai Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now clear that the whole essence of the misleading allegation was<br \/>\nto heat up the system, attempt to cow democratic voices, divert public<br \/>\ndiscourse from the rigging of the presidential election and scare the<br \/>\nPDP and our presidential candidate from pursuing our stolen presidential<br \/>\nmandate at the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have fears that Alhaji Lai Mohammed could have made those wild<br \/>\nclaims in a bid to pave the way to frame, harass, arrest and detain some<br \/>\nopposition figures on trump-up charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch antics have failed as Nigerians have seen through them and are<br \/>\nresolute, behind Atiku Abubakar, in the determination to retrieve his<br \/>\nmandate in the court, and no form of blackmail and intimidation will<br \/>\ndetract from that resolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy his fabricated claims, the Information Minister only succeeded in<br \/>\nfurther demarketing our dear nation in the international arena, causing<br \/>\nmore damage to investors\u2019 confidence in our system and exposing this<br \/>\nadministration as purveyor of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP therefore invites Alhaji Lai Mohammed to apologise to the<br \/>\nnation and desist from such acts of incitement\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, lied to Nigerians with baseless security breach allegations against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Atiku Abubakar, it&#8217;s presidential candidate in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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