Onanuga called on Obi to get his supporters to desist from spreading lies, malice and denigrating other presidential candidates, especially Bola Tinubu.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO) has alleged that the supporters of the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, and Biafra campaigners are the same.
Director, Media and Communications, Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga made the claim in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Onanuga called on Obi to get his supporters to desist from spreading lies, malice and denigrating other presidential candidates, especially Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate.
Onanuga noted that the TCO saw the need to appeal to Obi to caution his supporters after investigating the origin of a recent fake report in circulation.
He said the report had claimed that the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, wrote a letter to Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, asking him to support Obi and take care of his health.
Akufo-Addo has since denied making such an appeal to Tinubu.
Onanuga added that the TCO found out that the fake letter was first published on June 22 by a rogue platform, whose url is worldnews.space (sic) and site identity was World of News.
Onanuga said a content analysis of the site clearly showed that it was a Biafra news platform.
According to him, the false news was reposted on Facebook by Peter Obi Support Group on the same day.
“Both the Facebook account and the website are replete with fake stories about Bola Tinubu, including a fake story credited to former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State.
“Alleging that Tinubu demanded N50 billion monthly payment from him.
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“The spuriousness of the statement is in the evidence that Lagos did not begin to clock N50 billion revenue until after Ambode left office.
“Tinubu could not have demanded N50 billion monthly payment from Ambode when the state government didn’t make such in a month throughout the tenure of Ambode,” Onanuga said.
He added that the pirate website, which the Facebook account feeds on, also parades malicious fake news and headlines without supporting stories.
“The big surprise in all of these is that all the headlines have no supporting stories, and clicking them may bring virus to your computer.
“We have come to a point where it becomes imperative to tell Obi to show leadership.
“He should disavow his supporters who are employing fake news and disinformation as deliberate tools to deceive and poison the minds of unsuspecting Nigerians,” Onanuga stressed.