APC Chieftain Caught Spreading Fake News About Atiku
The
Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progrssives Congress in Lagos
State, Joe Igbokwe has been caught spreading fake news on Facebook
again.
Joe Igbokwe accused a former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of
sharing a sum of $5,000 to each party delegate during the People's
Democratic Party primaries in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to woo their
political support.
The controversial chieftain of South-eastern ancestry shared a
picture of a PDP-branded brown envelope containing wads of dollars on
his Facebook page with the caption:
"THE TRADING SEASON IS BACK IN PORT HARCOURT. ATIKU PAYS $5000 PER DELEGATE."
Mr. Igbokwe's aim was to label Atiku who later won the PDP
presidential primaries as a corrupt politicians playing dirty politics.
The post which was made at 8:57am on October 6, 2018 has garnered 400
likes, 57 comments and 4948 shares as at 11am on the 8th of October as
at the time of filing this report.
Checks by TORI NEWS revealed that the picture is a popular image
which surfaced in early 2015 during the presidential election in 2015.
This is the second attempt made by Mr. Igbokwe to mislead the
general public using his Facebook account which has a large following.
In July this year, Mr. Igbokwe posted a clear misinformation to thousands of his followers on his Facebook wall.
Accompanied with a picture, which was apparently taken inside Aso
Presidential Villa of a police officer walking past President Muhammadu
Buhari, who was sitting behind a desk in the background, Mr Igbokwe
posted, “Please meet ACP Obinna Chukwuka, the tear rubber Chief Security Officer to Mr President.”
Tear rubber in local parlance means ‘new’.
The post was apparently used to depict the president, who has come
under verbal attacks over the perceived lopsidedness of his political
appointments, as a detribalised leader.
Premium Times investigation revealed that the claim made in the
post was false as the president is yet to replace his Chief Security
Officer, Bashir Abubakar.
It would be recalled that Minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed, kickstarted a campaign against the proliferation of fake news
in July, claming that the country is at risk if fake news is allowed to
strive.
Mr. Igbokwe seems recalcitrant in proliferating fake news for cheap
and selfish political gains. With Nigeria preparing for the general
elections, Mr. Igbokwe is expected to churn out more fake reports to
malign candidates of the opposition parties.
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