Action Congress of Nigeria has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party for claiming that ACN National Leader, Bola Tinubu was not invited by the United States President Barrack Obama to attend the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
But PDP is insisting that Tinubu must apologise to Nigerians for bringing the country into disrepute by claiming he was "specially" invited to attend the Convention in the US.
The PDP National Vice-Chairman (South-West), Chief Segun Oni, through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, said PDP should not be held responsible for the “lies” of Tinubu.
On it's part, the ACN, in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the PDP was guilty of the misinformation and falsehood.
It described the allegation as “a needless smear campaign”, saying the reaction of the PDP was “symptomatic of an indolent, frightened and seemingly intimidated government suffering from misplaced priorities and whose past time is peddling rumours, half truths and disinformation”.
ACN said, “In the first instance, at no time during this entire needless controversy, did we issue a statement concerning Tinubu’s attendance or invitation to the DNC and we challenge the PDP propagandists-in-chief to produce evidence to the contrary.
“It was the Tinubu Media Office that issued a self-explanatory statement where Tinubu never claimed he was personally invited to the convention.”
However the PDP is sticking to its position. The statement said, “To us in the PDP, the most honourable thing for these fraudulent elements in the ACN to do is to own up to the fake personality that Tinubu, their leader, has become and apologise to Nigerians for ridiculing the country with their lies of Tinubu’s invitation by Obama.”
“Now that Tinubu is being faced with the consequences of his world of lies, is it PDP that must be blamed? Or was it PDP that made Tinubu, in his characteristic manner to lie that he was invited and given a ‘Gold Card’ to attend the Democratic Party Convention when in actual fact, he bought his invitation with $5,000?.”
On it's part, the ACN, in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the PDP was guilty of the misinformation and falsehood.
It described the allegation as “a needless smear campaign”, saying the reaction of the PDP was “symptomatic of an indolent, frightened and seemingly intimidated government suffering from misplaced priorities and whose past time is peddling rumours, half truths and disinformation”.
ACN said, “In the first instance, at no time during this entire needless controversy, did we issue a statement concerning Tinubu’s attendance or invitation to the DNC and we challenge the PDP propagandists-in-chief to produce evidence to the contrary.
“It was the Tinubu Media Office that issued a self-explanatory statement where Tinubu never claimed he was personally invited to the convention.”
However the PDP is sticking to its position. The statement said, “To us in the PDP, the most honourable thing for these fraudulent elements in the ACN to do is to own up to the fake personality that Tinubu, their leader, has become and apologise to Nigerians for ridiculing the country with their lies of Tinubu’s invitation by Obama.”
“Now that Tinubu is being faced with the consequences of his world of lies, is it PDP that must be blamed? Or was it PDP that made Tinubu, in his characteristic manner to lie that he was invited and given a ‘Gold Card’ to attend the Democratic Party Convention when in actual fact, he bought his invitation with $5,000?.”
