Atiku Replies APC Says I Don’t Need AI Manipulation To Prove Your Failings

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has replied the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its allegation of AI manipulation and deepfakes, saying he doesn’t want fabricated content material to show the failures of the Tinubu administration.

In a press release on Saturday by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, Atiku described the assertion by Dele Alake, issued at daybreak at the moment, as a determined smokescreen from a marketing campaign afraid of its personal document.

“Dele Alake’s assertion, issued at daybreak at the moment, is a determined and hole smokescreen from a marketing campaign afraid of its personal document.

“He accuses Atiku Abubakar and the ADC of a ‘devious plan,’ AI manipulation and deepfakes, yet offers no evidence linking them to the alleged letter or any fabricated video. This is the APC’s familiar script: make a reckless accusation, dress it up as certainty, then hope Nigerians stop asking questions. Alake should produce the evidence: names, dates and forensic findings. Until then, his ‘fake news alert’ is an empty political stunt,” the assertion mentioned.

Atiku mentioned no conspiracy was wanted to reveal the APC, as its failures had been seen in each market, filling station and family.

“Petrol is around ₦1,400 a litre; diesel has topped ₦2,000; food inflation remains close to 20 per cent. More than half of Nigerians were living in poverty last year, according to the World Bank estimate reported by Reuters. These are the brutal consequences of an incompetent, callous and ruinous economic course. They are not fake news,” he mentioned.

He additionally faulted the APC over its marketing campaign rally in Kaduna, questioning why a marketing campaign billboard wanted safety.

“Bola calls the car close to an APC billboard a ‘routine patrol.’ Nigerians can nonetheless ask why a marketing campaign billboard wanted safety. He can dismiss the pictures, however he can’t dismiss the experiences of supporters introduced in from distant states and left sleeping on Kaduna’s streets. More troubling nonetheless, experiences have emerged of an accident involving APC supporters travelling from Sokoto and likewise from Abuja to the rally. Details stay unconfirmed, and the APC should urgently account for the passengers’ security.

“Making citizens endure long, hazardous journeys and sleep outdoors simply to create rally optics is political exploitation, not leadership. The APC cares more about the appearance of a crowd than the safety and dignity of the people it transports,” he mentioned.

Atiku mentioned the event additionally explains why Tinubu is campaigning in solely 12 states.

“Perhaps this additionally explains why Tinubu is campaigning in solely 12 states. The identical supporters should be moved from one rally to the following, alongside roads his authorities has left in disrepair. Those journeys will eat significant time. Tinubu is aware of what occurs if the gang fails to succeed in the following vacation spot: he could also be left addressing empty seats — or, because the saying goes, speaking to the birds. A marketing campaign that should transport its viewers from state to state can’t move off that viewers as spontaneous nationwide help.

“You can hire buses, assemble a crowd and plaster the streets with billboards. You cannot hire consent. Nigerians have endured the APC’s punishing prices, shrinking incomes and broken promises. No parade, press statement or insult can conceal their growing rejection of this record,” he mentioned.

He mentioned the APC’s failures are sweeping, painful and indefensible, and its guarantees have collapsed into costly meals, unaffordable transport and households compelled to make do with much less.

“Alake’s assault on Atiku won’t cut back the price of a meal by one naira.

“The actual desperados are these clinging to energy whereas the nation burns. At the polls, Nigerians will reject this discredited document and defeat the APC. No quantity of propaganda can discuss the celebration out of the reckoning it has earned.

“Bola made life expensive; Atiku will make Nigeria affordable again!”