Omokri Forces APC To Disown Its Verified Twitter Account

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been forced to disown its “@APCNigeria” verified twitter account after being exposed of trying to beg Reno Omokri to reduce his attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari.

Recall that Omokri, who is an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, had posted screenshots of Twitter conversations between him and the APC, accusing the ruling party of trying to make friends with him.

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But reacting in a statement by its Assistant Director of Publicity, Mr Edegbe Odemwingie, the APC said: “The attention of the All Progressives Congress APC has been drawn to false allegations by a Mr. Reno Omokri, which was contained in an April 5, 2018 report published on the website of Vanguard Newspapers, titled: ‘APC secretly reaching out to me for friendship – Reno’.

“The report shows that Mr. Omokri’s allegation is based on interactions he had on twitter with one Philip Obin who manages a twitter handle, “@APCNigeria”.

“Recall that the Party had on several occasions distanced itself from the now notorious twitter handle, “@APCNigeria” following unauthorized tweets and subsequent false reports credited to the Party on the outcome of the Benue South Senatorial rerun election (February 21, 2016) and an “Assessment Poll” on President Muhammadu Buhari Administration (May 31, 2017), among others.

“Despite our rebuttals, Mr. Obin has continued to impersonate the Party through the twitter handle, “@APCNigeria”. For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that Philip Obin was one of the numerous youth volunteers for our party during the 2015 elections. He administered the Twitter handle at the time. But despite numerous appeals to him by various well meaning party representatives, to hand over the handle, Mr. Obin has refused and in defiance continues to use it to misrepresent the Party.

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“In essence, therefore, Obin’s interactions with Omokri are in his personal capacity and do not involve Party in any way.

“Giving this latest incident, the Party is now left with no option than to take other lawful actions to restrain Obin from further embarrassing the Party. The general public is yet again reminded that the Twitter handle @APCNigeria is not a Twitter handle of the All Progressives Congress”.

But Omokri has, however, reacted to the ruling party’s disclaimer of the Twitter conversations. He said: “24 hours after I exposed @APCNigeria’s overtures to me, the party has now denied their own VERIFIED twitter handle. APC is just a hypocritical contraption, full of lies and propaganda.I urge Nigeria to send them back to the pit of hell from where they came.

“If the APC cannot manage their own VERIFIED twitter handle, is it Nigeria they can manage? They had been making overtures to me, trying to get me to go easy on Buhari and I warned them to take their propaganda elsewhere because light cant mix with darkness.

“The way the APC disowned their VERIFIED twitter handle today is the same way that Nigerians will reject the APC and their inept and clueless administration. A party of backwardness.

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He added,”I urge all the Nigerian youths being used by @APCNigeria on social media to see how the party has used and dumped @PhilipObin. That is how they will also use and dump you. Nigerian youths, you have no future with APC. Not one youth in Buhari’s cabinet.”

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