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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Congress of Progressives (APC), has condemned a report linking him to a company called Act Technologies Limited.
The company had been accused of participating in the manipulation of the 2015 general election in Nigeria.
"Asiwaju has absolutely no connection with Act Technologies Limited," Tinubu's media bureau said on Friday.
"He had never even heard of the company until the PDP (and his friends in the media) launched this slander campaign a few days ago.
"In addition, Asiwaju has never been involved in the provision of card readers, registration and voter registration frameworks or any other material or service to INEC. Never, "the statement added.
The statement entitled "Reply to Saharareporters' allegations" reads as follows:
"Our attention has been drawn to a false and reckless story published online by Sahara Reporters wrongly accusing Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of electoral malpractice and mistakenly linking him to a company called Act Technologies Limited.
"If the lies were sand, this story would be a desert. Perhaps the only thing this story manages to get is the spelling of the name of Asiwaju. However, the story is only a crude and rude attempt to denigrate the name of Asiwaju. Asiwaju has absolutely no connection with Act Technologies Limited. He had never heard of the company until the PDP (and his friends in the media) began this campaign of slander a few days ago.
"In addition, Asiwaju has never been involved in the provision of card readers, registration and voter registration frameworks or any other material or service to INEC. Never.
"Let's be clear about this. If a political party controlled INEC's procurement practices in 2014/2015, it was the party that controlled the federal government at that time. Asiwaju never asked for or received a contract from Jonathan's government.
"As incompetent as his administration was, even President Jonathan would not sit idle while important electoral contracts were handed over to his most implacable political foe. As often happens with fiction concocted by amateurs, the application of a little common sense causes the disintegration of the whole story.
"Even the technological aspects of the report are fantastic and unfounded. All of this simply does not make sense from a technical point of view.
"The report only makes sense as part of a concerted effort to attack Asiwaju. Why does the PDP and its media relays fear it as long as we ask them to respond? But it is strange that they spend so much time and energy to fabricate lies against someone whose name will not even appear on a ballot.
"This story is just another effort by opponents of President Buhari and the PCA to justify their intention to skew the elections by claiming that the PCA government is illegitimate and has been in place. "The only problem is that the facts corroborate neither their claims nor their reasons for cheating. These people are incurable. They do not rig because they have already been rigged. They rig because the rig is not only in their blood, it is their blood.
"Such errant nonsense has no place in our national discourse. Sahara Reporters has reached a new floor. Publish as unfounded a report is more than a bad journalism, it is malicious. The publication and its publishers should be ashamed. "
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