The Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has backed the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu, on issues of live interview.
Newsonline reports that Keyamo said the write up which claimed that Tinubu said he would not appear for any television interview or live interview was fake and done in desperation.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment said the write-up was concocted by enemies of the APC presidential candidate.
Keyamo said, “Just like scores of photoshopped pictures flying everywhere on social media relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they are at it again, in their desperation to malign him, they now concoct fake quotations like the one below. Let’s see if they can fake election figures next year!”
Keyamo reaction was to a post by a support group for Tinubu, Tinubu Network Organization (TNO), which published a speech it purported to have emanated from the former Lagos State governor on the increasing demand that he speaks to Nigerians on a live interview on his plans for the country.
The post by TNO which tagged Tinubu’s official Twitter account and other APC stakeholders has been deleted, but Newsonline has the original write-up below.
Though Keyamo did not discredit the Tinubu support group, he described the message as fake.
The tweet read, “Asking me why I have not granted any live interview since my emergence as our party flag bearer, to me is never an issue of discourse especially now that our nation is yearning for a good leader that will take over from Mr. President and continue his good legacy.
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“Nigeria is in need of a pragmatic leader with pragmatic knowledge and understanding of their needs and that person is me. I am not going to Aso Villa to represent the Nigerian Broadcasting Cooperation, neither am I going there to represent the Nigerian Journalists, rather I am going there to represent the people of Nigeria in the international community as their President.
“Is Live Television a guarantee to win to become Nigeria president? Is never a guarantee and will never be. I am not against those going to them for interview. They are free to go but as for me, nobody will tell me what to do or what not to do. They don’t own me.
“All I know is that I am fully prepared ahead of the 2023 election. I have the Structure, the mechanism, the experience and expertise to the election. Those going to media are those without political structure and cannot win more than two polling units in their State, that is why they are busy running after the media to help publicize them and make them famous. That’s all.
“Insha Allah, I am the next President of Nigeria, no two ways about it. It’s already clear that Nigerians all over the country are strongly behind me right from the East, West North and South. I have no rival and I don’t see any rival at all in the forthcoming elections. All I see is noise makers, people without political structures and baby politicians running up and down simply because the constitution gave them the privilege to try their luck via contesting for an election.”
