The Director of Strategic Communications for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo has reacted to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s allegation that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was blackmailing its (PDP) governors ahead of the 2019 polls.
Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that the PDP’s claims amounted to admittance that its governors were corrupt, noting that “blackmail means that you have something against somebody and you are using that as a tool to make the person do your bidding”.
Speaking in an interview published by Vanguard on Sunday, Keyamo stated, “Did they tell you what we are using to blackmail them? Blackmail means that you have something against somebody and you are using that as a tool to make the person do your bidding. Are they confirming that their governors are corrupt? They are doing more damage to themselves than good by making such allegation. If they are saying so, they are confirming that their governors are corrupt. A very clean hand will fear no accusation; you cannot blackmail somebody who has not done anything. You see, you can only blackmail somebody who has done something.
“I am not saying I am confirming or not confirming what they are saying, I am only saying that by making such allegation, they are destroying their party and shooting themselves in the foot.
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“It appears that they are throwing in the towel already before the election. By making such allegation, they are telling the world that their governors have deserted them.
“They are confirming that they no longer enjoy the support of their governors because governors are the pillars of a party and governors are supposed to be the most loyal pillars of the party. If they are telling the world now, whether the reasons are genuine or not, that they no longer enjoy the support of their governors, I think the honourable thing they should is to throw in the towel before the February 2019 elections.”