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The All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has accused Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY and Arise News Television, Nduka Obaigbena, of conniving with the PDP to embarrass the APC flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by organizing townhall meetings.
Reacting to the rebuttal issued by Obaigbena, the pair of Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga of the Media Directorate of the APC PCC in a joint statement alleged that the Arise News townhall meetings were sponsored by the PDP to embarrass Tinubu.
the statement reads; “In his first statement attacking us, Obaigbena craftily attempted to mis-characterise as an attack on free speech, our principled stand against his blackmail to have Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu appear on Arise TV and its PDP sponsored Town Hall meetings.”
“In the second statement, he was still adamant that our candidate must attend his town hall debate, despite our stance that our candidate is already executing another communications strategy to reach the most important target: the Nigerian voters.
“We, repeat again: We will not make our candidate available to validate a scheme which, in the light of unassailable information at our disposal, is nothing but a racket by the Arise News owner, designed to embarrass our candidate,”the Tinubu team said.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Tinubu left the country for the United Kingdom ahead of his scheduled engagement at Chatham House in London and could not attend the Presidential Town Hall meeting organized by Arise News for candidates of the major four political parties.
While Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his counterpart in New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, participated, Tinubu has opted out.
Recall that Onanuga had knocked the organizers of the town hall meeting for repeatedly promoting the event using his principal’s image and name, despite earlier notification that he won’t attend.