Political agents using fake news to distract judiciary, says Obi-Datti media office

Political agents using fake news to distract judiciary, says Obi-Datti media office

 The Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed media office says
“rogue trolls” are deploying fake news to distract the judiciary.

 

Obi and Baba-Ahmed were the presidential and
vice-presidential candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25
election.

 

LP and its candidates are challenging the outcome of the
election at the tribunal.

 

In a statement signed by Diran Onifade, head of the
Obi-Datti media office, the group decried recent happenings as it pertains to
the judiciary.

 

It said the campaign of calumny against the bench and bar is
being orchestrated by “agents of retrogression to distract and defocus the
judiciary from its critical national assignment”.

 

“We find absolutely needless and utterly unacceptable some
of the curious happenings around our judiciary lately, starting with the threat
of anarchy and chaos should the ruling party’s candidate be legally removed by
the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC),” the statement reads.

 

“The allegations of a telephone conversation between the
esteemed Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukoyade Ariwoola with some
persons, which the Supreme Court has since denied, and most recently, the
bizarre fake news claiming that one of the panelists at the ongoing hearing
before the PEPC had resigned.”

 

The office added that the judiciary should not be burdened
by these distractions.

 

“It’s indisputable that the future of this country is tied
to the outcome of the judiciary’s assignment. Every hand must be on deck to
help them pilot the ship of the Nigerian state to safety away from perdition,”
the statement reads.

 

“Obi-Datti Media office, therefore, wishes to call on all
patriots desirous of seeing a new Nigeria to desist from any action that may
hinder the delivery of justice by their Lordships.

 

“Relatedly, we also want to use this medium to warn these
rogue Troll and Fog Machine agents to desist from ongoing attempts to smear or
entrap Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed under whatever ploy.

 

 “We recall at least
seven failed fake demarketing and discrediting campaigns against our
principals.

 

“We are all the more concerned about plans to escalate these
desperate acts ahead of the PEPC judgment. Nigerians must not be gullible to
believe or accept such deep, fake, and dubious ploys, all in the name of
partisan politics.

 

“While we continue to appreciate our security agencies’
efforts to secure Nigeria, we implore them to ensure that our principals are
safe and secure in their persons, movement and properties as they go about
their public and private endeavours.

 

“Obi-Datti media office, therefore, wishes to call on all
patriots desirous of seeing a new Nigeria to desist from any action that may
hinder the delivery of justice by their Lordships or other forms of nefarious
activities that may heat up the national polity.”

Source: Political agents using fake news to distract judiciary, says Obi-Datti media office

 - NigerianEye

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