The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied the purported story by former minister of State for Defence, Sen Musiliu Obanikoro that the party’s presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, was pelted with stones during the party’s rally in Lagos, saying a lie has never worn a bolder face.
In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said, Gen Buhari and other top leaders of the APC rode in an open bus from the Palace of the Oba of Lagos to the Teslim Balogun Stadium, venue of the rally, to great cheers from Lagosians who lined the route.
’’Not once was he pelted with stones during the almost two-hour ride. It is obvious that those who were paid by Mr Obanikoro to stone the general failed to deliver. We therefore urge him to seek a refund of whatever money he paid to his hired hands to pelt Gen Buhari with stones,’’ the APC stated.
APC said Obanikoro’s statement on an attack on Gen Buhari in Lagos must be his own way of saying ‘thank you’ to his masters for nominating him as minister on Friday, as his reward for ceding the gubernatorial ticket he claimed to have won to Jimi Agbaje.
The party thanked the good people of Lagos for turning out in unprecedented numbers to welcome Gen Buhari to Lagos, saying the Centre of Excellence had never witnessed such a huge and cheery crowd.
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