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Steer clear of fake news, Osun APC tells residents

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has urged the residents with goodwill to join the party “in a massive drive to inform and educate people” about the danger of fake news.

The party said the spread of fake news could “destroy everything good that has happened in the state since 2010”.

It said: “We are raising awareness that so much lies, generated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and regularly circulated in the traditional, social and fake news media outlets, have done serious damage to people’s perception that some are now looking at a beauty and calling it ugliness.

“The poison of fake news,” the APC said, “could become endemic in the state, if a concerted and vigorous re-education and positive information campaign is not undertaken urgently to restore normalcy in the information space and save the state from involuntary suicide.”

In a statement yesterday in Osogbo, the state capital, by the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, the party highlighted a growing attitude among some people “whose mentality appears to have been poisoned by the PDP campaign of lies to denigrate, especially the wonderful education infrastructure and road networks which the government of Rauf Aregbesola has built”.

The statement added: “Outsiders come to Osun and marvel in admiration at these structures. But lies look away from them in scorn, and some of those people are from the so-called enlightened communities in the state.

“They continue, in spite of what they are looking at, to rile against the governor that the people of Osun do not need state-of-the-art schools. They prefer the ramshackle schools that PDP left in 2010 to be renovated, just as the PDP had been advocating.”

The APC also drew attention of the residents to what it called deliberate falsehood of the PDP on the MKO Abiola International Airport being constructed under a concessionary business deal with significant Turkish government interest.

The party noted that the opposition in the state was allegedly planning to disable the project by labelling it “inflated contract arrangement”.

It said the opposition planned to abrogate and renegotiate, should it ever come to power in the state.

“But here are facts.

“It is a concessionaire arrangement which won’t cost Osun government one naira in actual construction funding.

“Whatever the cost, it’s the concessionaire’s business to find the cost to construct the airport.

“Ignorance and fake news peddling are dangerous poison which the PDP and a few others are spreading in Osun.

“They will not only destabilise, overheat and eventually destroy the state, they are capable of affecting the mentality of our people negatively that they might be unable to distinguish lies from truth, the APC said.

“Imagine the attempt to derail the airport project.

“First of its kind in Nigeria as cargo, regular airport, with hanger facility for maintenance of aircraft

“The project is significant for local and international business contact, as well as job creation for the state.

“You begin to wonder why any sane person or party would want to destroy these projects if not for sheer wickedness and a tendency for ‘kleptocracy’, which is the trademark of Osun PDP.”

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