…says mob sponsored by politicians, terror sympathisers
The Presidency on Tuesday accused the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, of allegedly latching onto “fake reports” about the stoning of the President’s convoy in Kano putting the All Progressives Congress at loggerheads with the Federal Government.
In a statement signed late Tuesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the Presidency argued that the mob spotted in a widely circulated video footage were “innocent children sponsored by politicians and terrorist sympathisers.”
The statement is titled ‘PDP’s sad celebration of the false news of Kano stone-pelting of the President.’
Late Monday, the PDP condemned the attack on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in Kano saying the attack was allegedly sponsored by the Presidential candidate of the APC, Bola…