The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has said that he is not planning to move the country’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT from Abuja to Lagos State.
The APC chieftain has accused the opposition camps of leading campaigns of calumny and hatred against him.
Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council PCC, in a statement released on Tuesday, said Tinubu was different from the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar who’s alleged of planning to sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Company NNPC Limited to his friends.
He advised the PDP and the Labour Party, LP of making use of use of campaign of calumny to spoil the image of the APC chieftain.
“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 harbour plans to relocate the Federal Capital from Abuja to Lagos on succeeding President Muhammad Buhari from 29th May, 2023”, he stated.
“We are 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.
“Let us say with emphasis, that Asiwaju does not contemplate any such plan and will not do anything that is so ultra-unconstitutional.
“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”, he stated.
“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”, he added.