The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked an attack on President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano State, saying it was fabricated by the opposition Democratic Party (PDP).

Describing the attack as fake, the APC said President Buhari was “warmly” received in Kano State on Monday by the people of the state and government officials where he commissioned eight projects, including an overhead bridge with an underpass and a cancer centre.

Reports emerged on Monday that the President’s convoy was attacked in the Hotoro area of Kano.

Viral videos also showed stones littering a road where Buhari’s convoy was said to have passed.

Reacting to the development, the Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement issued on Monday, accused the PDP of fabricating the attack on President Buhari.

Onanuga stated: “We were not surprised to read of the imaginary attack on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria being peddled by the Peoples Democratic Party since the party has nothing tangible to tell Nigerians from its crumbling Presidential Campaign.

“This invented attack on President Muhammadu Buhari must have happened only in the fertile imagination of PDP National Publicity Secretary, one Debo Ologunagba.

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“Nigerians should disregard this fake news from a party that has lost touch with reality and suffering the agony of violating its own rules on power rotation.

“Just as it has been masterminding fake news against the APC presidential candidate and trying vainly to cause disharmony in the APC family, we believe the party may have planned to embarrass President Buhari in Kano and then put the blame on host Governor Ganduje and Tinubu.

“This is because PDP has of recent morphed from being a Buhari virulent critic to strangely becoming a Buhari spokesperson! The last time it issued a self-serving misinterpretation of Asiwaju’s statement in Abeokuta as an attack on President Buhari.

It should be quite obvious to Nigerians that the knowledge of impending defeat of PDP at the coming presidential poll has pushed the party and its candidate into frenzied hallucinatory mode of mindless, ridiculous, ludicrous litany of lies and fabrications against APC  and its candidate.

“The PDP is a drowning party feverishly clawing at any straw of lies and lashing out in all delusional directions to keep afloat – but sink it will.

“We believe Nigerians are not taken in by the jejune antics.

“The PDP now runs the most unethical, pernicious and inelegant, abusive, obtrusive and nationally divisive campaign in the history of electioneering in Nigeria,” he said.

The spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council added: “Contrary to PDP fabrication, President Buhari was warmly received in Kano State today by the good people and government of the state where he commissioned eight hugely impactful projects including overhead bridge with underpass and a cancer centre.

“On Sunday, we alerted the nation to the plot by PDP to orchestrate and execute many evil plans to defame, ridicule, and delegitimise President Muhammadu Buhari and our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“Nigerians of goodwill would have seen by now that we didn’t raise false alarm in our statement issued on 29 January 2023 where we detailed the evil machinations of PDP and their hirelings.

“Only the evil mind of PDP could conceive an attack on a President of Nigeria.

“It is not impossible that PDP through its paid agents would organise miscreants to stage-manage an attack. But  we are sure the security agencies are capable of foiling any planned attack on the President and anyone who is caught in such unholy plot now or in the future will have himself or herself to blame.”

Onanuga, however, called on the security agencies, especially the police and Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, for “interrogation over this imaginary attack”.

The Star