APC Clears Air On Nsima Ekere Alleged Audio
By UbongAbasi Ise
Coming on the heels of the alleged
audio of Nsima Ekere discussing with thugs, which has gone viral few days ahead
of gubernatorial polls, Information and Strategic Communication committee of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign council, has slammed the Peoples’
Democratic Party, PDP, for saturating the media space with propaganda aimed at
defaming the characters of the APC.
On the purported leaked audio,
the APC media campaign team, in a statement signed by its chairman, Mr. Eseme Eyiboh,
said audios of that nature could be manufactured by any criminal with technological
savvy as digitalization of today’s world
could make possible imaginative creations.
“The Cyber space got saturated
again by the PDP propaganda machinery, a well oiled department of the PDP campaign
effort for the 2019 governorship election in the state. Since the commencement
of the campaigns, the PDP has spared no effort in churning out one ridiculous
propaganda item or the other, most of the time criminally defaming the
characters of All Progressives Congress leaders.
“We state that the trending
audio is one of such materials. In a digital world where technology has made
things so easy to either corrupt or imaginatively create or contrive, such
audios can be manufactured by any barely technologically aware criminal.
“Armed with such a weighty
audio, if the authenticity is to be taken for granted, one would have thought
such a “patriot” who “leaked” the audio should have headed to the relevant
security agencies for investigation. But the real intention was to make money.
In a season where any charlatan with any dubious merchandise, can easily sell
to a desperate governor, mortally afraid of losing a re-election, the audio, no
matter how manifestly flawed, would become a best seller.
“We are not entirely surprised
that the dummy was sold to us and bought with the common patrimony of Akwa Ibom
people,” the statement reads.
The media committee further called
on security agencies to commence investigation immediately in order to bring
the perpetrators of such act to book, while urging Akwa Ibom people to ignore
the trending audio and go out en masse to perform their civic responsibility at
the polls.
“Because of the weighty nature
of the content of the trending audio, we invite the security agencies to
investigate all those connected to this most heinous blackmail of the APC
governorship candidate and bring the perpetrators to book. As a man who has
paid his dues in the service of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Nsima Ekere can never
contemplate anything that would endanger the life of any Akwa Ibom person.
“We call on Akwa Ibom people
to once more ignore this latest propaganda outing by the failing PDP and the
out-going governor of Akwa Ibom State, and troop out in their numbers tomorrow
and fulfill their civic responsibility, as law enforcement agencies are on hand
to protect them from those who want to foist themselves on the state,” said the
Information and Strategic Communication committee of the APC campaign council.
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