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National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress has described as callous, morbid and insensitive, the comments made by President Goodluck Jonathan that the Chibok girls are still alive and that the Boko Haram sect would have displayed their bodies if they had been killed.

In a statement issued in Lagos by the National Publicity Secretary, APC, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday, the party said it found the comment deeply offensive to human sensibilities rather than providing hope and succour for the traumatised parents of the girls.

The opposition party pointed out that a key role of a president in times of tribulations and tragedies is, to offer hope and be the Consoler-in-Chief, not to make statements that will deepen the suffering and sorrow of victims.

APC said Jonathan should have spoken on the basis of actionable intelligence, not some twisted, melancholic and offensive logic. The party said the statement confirmed the fears of parents of the girls and Nigerians concerning the fate of the girls, who had now been held in captivity for over 300 days, without the government rescuing them.

APC stated that all the parents of the girls as well as all concerned people around the world wanted to know was what the Jonathan-led administration was doing to bring the girls home safely and as soon as possible.

The party urged Jonathan to borrow a leaf from his Chadian counterpart, who came across as being very presidential in his comments on Shekau by saying, It is in Abubakar Shekaus interest to surrender; we know where he is. If he refuses to give himself up, he will suffer the same fate as his comrades.

APC said the Chadian Presidents statement also contradicted the earlier claim by the Nigerian authorities that Shekau had been killed at least twice, the last of which was backed up with a pictorial evidence.

The statement added, The Shekau that President Deby was referring to is the same Shekau that the Jonathan-led administration claimed to have killed at least twice, and the same Shekau the same administration is now seeking to capture alive.

Responding to Lai Mohammeds statement on the Chibok girls, Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode said, Whilst the majority of Nigerians are overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope by saying that the girls are still alive. Mohammed and the APC are not happy.

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Former Head of State, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari

The Presidency has accused the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari of avoiding a debate with his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Presidency alleged that Buhari and his campaign organisation had rebuffed all efforts to get him to debate with President Jonathan.

The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, made the allegation in a piece sent to SUNDAY PUNCH entitled We challenge Buhari to a debate,

Abati said, The man to blame for this denial is General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. Getting him to debate the incumbent, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has been an uphill task.

To say that the man is scared, practically running away from an opportunity to debate his ideas against the incumbents, is to be charitable. He doesnt want it. Every effort to get him to the podium has been rebuffed by him and his handlers.

He said while Jonathan accepted invitations to two presidential debates before the elections were rescheduled, Buhari was not interested in any of them.

The presidential spokesperson noted that every Nigerian would love to see the PDP and APC presidential candidates in a debate, being the main contenders in the election. According to him, that would be good for our democracy.

Abati recalled that the first group that approached Jonathan was represented by John Momoh of Channels TV; Emeka Izeze of The Guardian, and Nduka Obaigbena of ThisDay, Arise TV and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria.

He said while the Presidency agreed to any Sunday, Buhari allegedly rejected a Sunday because he does not work on Sundays.

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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress seeking to represent Obokun Constituency at the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye, has blamed the alleged destruction of his campaign billboards on those he called the agents of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Oyintiloye, who said this in a statement issued on Friday blamed the Osun East senatorial candidate of the PDP, Mr. Francis Fadahunsi, for the destruction.

He said, Thugs loyal to the PDP Senatorial Candidate in Osun East , Mr. Francis Fadahunsi, came to Ibokun Friday night and destroyed the billboard stationed along Ibokun axis of Ibokun-Osogbo road.

An eye witness said the gangsters, led by one of the leading thugs of the gang, identified as Blessing, came in two cars with colour red and blue respectively to destroy the billboard.

The destroyed billboard had Oyintiloyes picture and the pictures of the APC Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates, Muhammadu Buhari, Babajide Omoworare and Nathaniel Agunbiade.

Oyintiloye advised the PDP and its candidates to conduct their campaign in obedience to the peace accord signed in Abuja by political leaders.

However, Fadahunsi while reacting to the allegation through the spokesman of his campaign organisation, Mr. Sola Olowoye, debunked the allegations while describing Oyintiloye as a serial lair.

The PDP candidates spokesman said that Oyintiloye was an inconsequential candidate whose participation in the election was of no effect to Fadahunsis aspiration.

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