The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Marketing campaign Council has accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of allegedly plotting to discredit the celebration’s presidential marketing campaign flag-off in Kaduna.
The council made the allegation in a observation issued on Saturday by means of its spokesperson, Dele Alake, who claimed that Atiku and the ADC had been orchestrating a disinformation marketing campaign towards President Bola Tinubu, Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani, and different APC leaders forward of the rally.
In line with the observation, the alleged marketing campaign concerned the movement of deceptive experiences, doctored paperwork, synthetic intelligence-generated content material and deepfake movies supposed to painting the APC rally negatively.
The council cited the movement of {a photograph} of a safety car on regimen patrol close to an APC marketing campaign billboard in Kaduna as one of the most alleged makes an attempt to deceive the general public.
It claimed that the {photograph} used to be offered in a way suggesting that safety workforce were deployed to offer protection to APC billboards.
The council additional alleged that Atiku shared a document in response to the incident on his legit social media accounts, amplifying what it described as a deceptive narrative.
The APC marketing campaign council additionally raised issues over a purported letter allegedly written by means of Governor Uba Sani to the Director-Normal of the APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, claiming that the Kaduna State Executive had launched N2.3 trillion to host the rally.
Pushing aside the reported expenditure as false, the council wondered the determine’s plausibility, arguing that it exceeded the blended budgets of Kaduna State for 2024, 2025, and 2026.
It put the state’s budgets for the 3 years at N458.271 billion, N790.439 billion and N985.9 billion, respectively.
The council maintained that the figures contradicted the declare that N2.3 trillion were spent on webhosting the marketing campaign rally.
It additional alleged that outdated, doctored and deepfake movies might be circulated all through the rally to create the affect that citizens had been adverse to the APC marketing campaign.
The council, on the other hand, didn’t supply impartial proof within the observation to verify its allegations towards Atiku and the ADC.
It advised Nigerians to stay vigilant and scrutinise knowledge circulating on social media and different platforms.
The observation described the alleged actions as makes an attempt to undermine the celebration’s marketing campaign and harm the reputations of its leaders.
The APC presidential marketing campaign flag-off is scheduled to carry in Kaduna on Saturday, October 24, 2026.
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