DIRECTOR of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organaisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) should answer the question posed to it on whether its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, can guarantee that not one dollar of notable terrorist groups has beenused to support his presidential campaign.
Fani-Kayode, in a swift response to the court threat by the spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), Malam Garba Shehu, on the question, said it was a pity that supposed educated persons could not make a distinction between a question and an assertion.
According to him, “It is a pity that these people are not well educated. They cannot even make a distinction between a question and an assertion. Rather than asking me to retract or withdraw the question, they should just answer it and stop misbehaving.
“If they are waiting for a retraction to our questions, they will wait forever. Hell will freeze over before we retract any question that we have put. We will not retract any question; rather, we will continue to put more uncomfortable questions to them until they provide answers by saying yes or no.
“We have made no assertion, we have simply asked a set of legitimate, responsible, sensitive and important questions, and we have every right to do so.”
Earlier, the APCPCO had threatened to sue Fani-Kayode for allegedly claiming that General Buhari got funding for his election campaign from terrorist groups.
In a statement released in Abuja on Saturday, the APCPCO accused Fani-Kayode of perpetuating the religious politics that his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan, “is well known for,” giving him one week to retract his comments or face the law.
“Never before in Nigeria’s history has the issue of religion been applied to such sinister purposes as we have seen during the years of President Jonathan’s government,” said Malam Shehu.
Source: Tribune
