There is no doubt that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is a party built on a foundation of lies and deceits, as its sponsors have unabatedly concocted and fed the unsuspecting public with mind-boggling and most unimaginable lies, all in a desperate and wanton bid to grab power by all means.
These well packaged lies and misleading information resonantly orchestrated by an equally well coordinated and oiled propaganda machine gave the APC a temporary political advantage over the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. But that was for a moment. That was before the public, especially their targeted audience of eligible voters got wiser for these deceptions. The APC had probably forgotten that nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies. They would eventually crumble like a pack of cards.
The very discerning Nigerian electorates have since discovered that APC’s intemperate propaganda is nothing but an assault on their collective sensibilities. Nigerians have now realised that the opposition party consistently lies about almost everything and anything. They fabricate lies and build their stories on half-truths, false statements, flawed and selective evidence. Anything goes, as long as they are able to secure power. Perhaps, a synopsis of some of these sponsored fabrications would further expose the APC’s lack of integrity and penchant for falsehood.
Last year June, in the build up to the Ekiti governorship election, the APC issued a false statement alleging that a plane conveying Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso to attend its rally in Ekiti was denied landing permission at Akure Airport. On the contrary, the governor, according to his Director of Press, Baba Dantiye, had no plans to travel to Ekiti. Governor Kwankwaso was actually in Kano on that day, attending the graduation of 1120 mechanics and vulcanizers from the 44 local government areas of the state. In a despairing move to shore up its waning popularity, the APC with the connivance of some of its supporters totally compromised the integrity of an AIT conducted Online Presidential Poll, voting multiple times.
This prompted the AIT, in order to protect its integrity to issue a statement, part of which read: “a forensic test of the votes polled after the websites were shut down further revealed that 30 identified unique IP-Addresses had voted a total of 4969 times in favour of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ”. They also lied about the former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as being in President Goodluck Jonathan’s entourage to Chad. If they had taken time to cross-check their facts, they would have discovered that Modu Sheriff was not part of the entourage, but only happened to be in Ndjamena at the time, and never took part in any of the meetings Jonathan had with the Chadian president.
The APC also accused the PDP-led government of moving DSS operatives to Osun state to terrorise the people of the state, when in fact; it was the APC governor of Osun State, Aregbesola that formally requested for their deployment ahead of the August 9 governorship election. The most ridiculous of them all were the claims by the opposition that members of the PDP were behind recent attacks on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign convoys in Katsina and Bauchi states. Any discerning mind would find such claims ludicrous, for how would the PDP hire thugs to physically attack their own presidential candidate with stones and cudgels and even injure his security personnel? What a mind-boggling lie.
APC’s latest falsehood, their most recent lie was the claim that their presidential candidate, Gen. Buhari had granted an interview for a local TV Show, ‘All Eyes on Africa’. He was allegedly interviewed by one Kemi Fadojutimi in London. But contrary to APC’s claim that the interview took place in London, Buhari was actually interviewed in a ‘King Ambassador Suite’ at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. The Guardian newspaper that used the interview picture on its front page was very embarrassed about such deceit and was quick to do a retraction in its following day edition, having found out the lie about the location of the interview.
Now, people are questioning the credibility and integrity of the opposition party. If the APC could lie about an ordinary location of an interview their standard-bearer had recently, lie about the age of their 52- year-old youth leader, then they would lie and deceive Nigerians about just anything, including the so called ‘change’ they ceaselessly proclaim.
So, based on the party’s growing reputation as masters of deception, it is only logical for Nigerians to conclude that APC could have lied when the party denied cloning of Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for which it was accused; That the party could also be lying when it declared that APC had no plans to hack into INEC’s server. Indeed, many questions bordering on integrity and fair play are begging for answers, since everything about the APC seems to be deceptive.