The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Marketing campaign Council has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of allegedly orchestrating a disinformation marketing campaign to discredit the celebration’s presidential marketing campaign flag-off in Kaduna on Saturday….
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Marketing campaign Council has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of allegedly orchestrating a disinformation marketing campaign to discredit the celebration’s presidential marketing campaign flag-off in Kaduna on Saturday.
The council alleged that the opposition deliberate to deploy synthetic intelligence-generated content material, deepfake movies, doctored photos and counterfeit paperwork to undermine President Bola Tinubu, Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani and different APC leaders.
In a commentary issued on Saturday, the council’s spokesperson, Dele Alake, stated the alleged marketing campaign started with the move of {a photograph} appearing a safety car on regimen patrol close to an APC marketing campaign billboard in Kaduna city.
In line with Alake, opposition supporters allegedly misrepresented the {photograph} as proof that safety brokers have been deployed to offer protection to APC billboards.
He additional claimed {that a} nationwide newspaper printed the account sooner than Atiku shared it on his legitimate social media handles, describing the series as a coordinated try to enlarge the allegation.
The council additionally accused the previous vice-president and the ADC of circulating a purported letter allegedly written by means of Governor Uba Sani to the Director-Basic of the APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari.
The alleged letter reportedly claimed that the Kaduna State Executive had launched N2.3 trillion to host the APC rally.
Alake pushed aside the determine as fabricated, arguing that it used to be inconsistent with the state’s annual price range.
“How a lot is all the annual income of Kaduna State, or any state, for that subject, {that a} state would spend N2.3 trillion to host a rally?” he requested.
The APC spokesperson stated Kaduna State’s budgets for 2024, 2025 and 2026 stood at N458.271 billion, N790.439 billion and N985.9 billion, respectively.
He famous that the blended budgets for the 3 years amounted to lower than N2.3 trillion, which he stated underscored the implausibility of the allegation.
The council additional alleged that outdated photos, doctored movies and deepfake content material could be circulated all over the rally to create the impact that citizens have been hostile to the APC marketing campaign.
“We hereby use this chance to alert most of the people about this malicious and ignoble plan,” Alake stated.
He accused Atiku and the ADC of resorting to what he described as determined ways of their quest for political energy and suggested Nigerians to stay vigilant in opposition to disinformation.
“This can be a indisputable fact that Atiku Abubakar and the ADC, his special-purpose car, are incapable of profitable any election,” he stated.
The APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council known as on Nigerians to reject what it described as makes an attempt to govern public opinion forward of the 2027 normal election.
The allegations have been contained in a commentary signed by means of Alake on October 24, 2026.