The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has urged security agencies to invite the Director of Special Projects and Social Media of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode, for questioning over his claims that Atiku met with serving generals to derail democracy. 

Atiku specifically urged the Department of State Services, DSS, the Nigeria Police Force and other relevant security agencies to take Fani-Kayode to task over his grievous and unsubstantiated insinuations bothering on treason. 

The PDP candidate spoke through his Special Assistant, Public Communications, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, in a statement, in Abuja yesterday who issued the statement in response to a tweet by Fani-Kayode that Atiku met with top army generals, with a possible plan to scuttle the election or perpetrate a coup, an offence which attracts death penalty. 

Shaibu said that ordinarily they wouldn’t have bothered responding to Fani-Kayode who has over the years built a reputation of being an established liar, so much so that he was even publicly blacklisted by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, after his disgraceful outburst at a journalist.

However, allegations and insinuations of a coup should not be taken lightly, given the fact that it is treason, an offence that carries the death penalty and while commending the Nigerian military for effectively rubbishing Fani-Kayode’s barefaced lie, we call on security agencies to invite him to shed more light on the allegations.

Shaibu described Fani-Kayode’s attempt to recant as belated, adding that the allegations were too grave to be ignored.