Fayose's agents behind media attacks on Adeboye ----APC
(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele
Fayose of deploying his aides to unleash serial media attacks on Pastor Enoch
Adeboye and blame them on APC to set Nigerians, particularly Christians of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, against the party and its leaders.
The party had a few days ago refuted a media report linking
it with a report castigating Adeboye for praising Fayose during the visit by
the man of God to the state.
Few days later, another statement by a group but
ascribed to Hakeem Jamiu, who is an aide
of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, also railed
against the religious leader, calling him a money-monger working for Fayose
after collecting cash.
But APC scoffed at the "fraud," saying such
malicious report purportedly by APC followed the same pattern of alleged
Fayose's subterfuge to "criminally" set the public against the party
for undeserved public sympathy.
Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement
in Ado-Ekiti that the serial media attacks on Pastor Adeboye were orchestrated
"by a criminal gang working for Fayose to always set communities against
communities, individuals against individuals, and individuals against
institutions".
The statement alleged that Fayose's media aides led by Lere
Olayinka had issued two damaging statements against Adeboye but ascribed
them to APC in a "criminal conspiracy to paint the party in bad light to
incur the wrath of Redeemed Church members and general public."
He said: "We want to make it plain with all sense of
responsibility that APC is not the author of the two press statements as we
have utmost respect for men in God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye in particular.
"The two press statements bear the footprint of Fayose
in his characteristic manner to push fictitious and damaging press releases in
the media against individuals and institutions and ascribe them to his
opponents to incur public opprobrium.
"Nigerians should remember that this same Fayose
criminally printed posters in Chief Afe Babalola's name in 2005 purporting that
the innocent elder statesman wanted to contest election against him, hence the
incessant criticisms of his government by the innocent Senior Advocate of
Nigeria.
"He did the same to Fayemi's wife with a press
statement that the innocent woman called Ekiti people ingrate and hungry
people, the same way his media crooks cooked different anonymous groups in the
name of APC and used their names to lie and abuse APC leaders in order to tear
the party apart and in fact the same these crooks wrote on my behalf in the
media that I accused Mrs Aisha Buhari of complicity in the Harliburton scandal
and that I asked her to defend herself."
Explaining that the latest press statement alleging that APC
described Pastor Adeboye as a money-monger is one in the series of evil plots
by Fayose to set Nigerians against the party, Olatunbosun said: "The lid
of this media conspiracy has been blown open by their latest press release condemning Pastor Adeboye as a
money monger.
"They posted the press release to media houses in the
name of one Oluwole Ogunlola with the email address ekitinews2014@gmail.com, an
email address that belongs to Ekiti State Government.
"Besides, there is no member in the APC media team
called Oluwole Ogunlola; in fact all APC
press releases are signed by Taiwo Olatunbosun and sent to the media through
his email address.
"The last two press releases against Adeboye, which
they alleged were written by the State Chairman of APC, Jide Awe; and Fayemi's
Senior Special Assistant on Research and Documentation, Hakeem Jamiu, were
neither sent to the media through Olatunbosun's email and nor signed by him.
"Their latest attempt to paint APC leaders, such as Awe
and Fayemi, in bad light in the eyes of Pastor Adeboye, fell flat on their face
when reputable media houses refused to use the story because it did not
originate from Taiwo Olatunbosun's email address neither was the story signed
by him as is the practice in APC's communications to media houses.
"We agree that Fayose and his media aides are a perfect
match in integrity deficiency, the experience of Ekiti people and indeed Nigerians
in Fayose and his aides' hands is a direct consequence of placing the serious
business of running the administration of a state in the hands of irresponsible
people.
"We appreciate the Nigerian media for their display of
professionalism and pursuit of truth as enshrined in the media code and
practice by refusing to publish Fayose's malicious and dangerous press release
capable of causing social discontent in the Nigerian society."
Insisting that the two press statements never emanated from
the party and regretting that one Bola Bolawole, supposedly an old editor,
though Fayose's acolyte, fell for that cheap fraud to rail at APC leaders,
Olatunbosun added:
"We wish to reiterate that APC,
Awe and Jamiu neither issued any press release nor wrote any article
against Pastor Adeboye.
"We believe that Pastor Adeboye worships and serves
true God and it is on the strength of this that we invoke Psalm 52 on the
writers on those press releases attributed to APC for devising mischief, doing
evil, lying and working deceitfully against the righteous.
"We believe that Pastor Adeboye has an anointed tongue
and so we say that may the curses from Pastor Adeboye's mouth and wrath of the
Great Lord he serves be upon the writers of those damaging press releases against him."
He added that Fayose's latest veiled attack on Pastor Adeboye had confirmed his
serial disdain for the men of God after he recently insulted a renown Muslim
cleric, Sheik Muyideen Bello, when he angrily snatched a microphone from him at
a public function in a mosque in Ado-Ekiti for telling him the truth.
He urged security agents to conduct discrete investigations
on fake news writers on the internet "to stop this criminal behaviour on
the part of Fayose's aides by prosecuting those behind the fake press releases."
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