The Usman Bayero Nafada Campaign Organization has denied a trending social media campaign against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship candidate of the party which suggests support for President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Director of the Media and Publicity Committee of the Organization, Dahiru Hassan Kera in a statement made available to newsmen condemned the trending picture and said the trending photo is the mischievous handwork of the candidate’s detractors who would go to any length to paint Bayero Nafada in bad light.
It said the social media campaign of calumny depicting its Governorship Candidate in Gombe State, Senator Usman Bayero Nafada, campaigning for President Muhamadu Buahri in a trending 4+4 photo has no iota of truth in it.
According to the statement, “the Council wish to draw the attention of their supporters, members of the PDP and the general public that, at no time did Senator Usman Bayero Nafada ever come out to publicly or privately campaign for the APC Presidential candidate and he’ll never do so”.
It said, “To put the records straight, we want to state that the trending photo was recently captured when our principal and PDP Governorship candidate, received some APC youths from Jeka-da-fari quarters of Gombe town who decamped to PDP at the White House. It was in the course of their interaction that Nafada used his two hands to call on the rowdy session to calm down”.
The Organization then called on the opposition and other detractors to find a better way of selling their candidates through issue based campaigns and not lies and deceit, stressing that, “our detractors mischievously manipulated the photo to say that our principal’s two hands were depicting 4+4”.
It said, since the emergence of Senator Usman BayeroNafada as the PDP’s candidate in the state, the APC had been jittery and devising ways of denigrating him for cheap political gain, adding that “this is nothing more than the last kick of the dying horse.
“We, in the PDP Campaign Council and the PDP in general, restate our resolve to continue to pursue and uphold the virtues and tenets of democracy by promoting peace and the development of our State and Nigeria as a whole”, the group said.
“In all our campaigns and other political gatherings, Bayero Nafada and the Campaign Council, have always been calling on our supporters to vote for the PDP from Presidential (Atiku) to the State House of Assembly candidates.
“We are sure that if voted into power during the forthcoming general elections, Nigeria and the people of Gombe State will not regret their choice because the people will experience the execution of programmes and projects that will uplift the living standard of our people but not to be feeding the people with lies and propaganda as some opposition parties do.
“Governor Dankwambo’s administration has, within the past seven years, transformed Gombe State to an enviable status among our contemporaries and it’s only by voting Bayero Nafada that such gestures could be maintained and sustained for greater Gombe State,” Kera emphasized in the statement.
