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The CPC reacted to a story published by the Nigerian Pilot.
The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has said Yinka Odumakin does not speak for its leader and former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari.
The party was reacting to a statement published by a national daily, Nigerian Pilot, credited to Mr. Odumakin alleging that governors elected under the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, are corrupt.
CPC faulted the attribution of Mr. Odumakin’s statement to the retired General by the paper saying, “As a matter of fact, Mr. Yinka Odumakin has not functioned as the spokesman for General Muhammadu Buhari since 2011, shortly after the disposal of the CPC’s Presidential petition at the Supreme Court”.
The party in a statement by its spokesperson, Rotimi Fashakin, Wednesday in Abuja, said the leadership of the CPC is “not unaware of the mischief embedded in the reporting that was meant to achieve very politically capricious purposes”.
The statement added that the party does “not know whose interests the reporters and the Newspaper are serving. But let it be stated that, much as the said story was embarrassing to our amiable National leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, we wish to disabuse the minds of our friends, teeming supporters and merger partners that this hogwash was a cynical display of unprofessional journalism.
“For the umpteenth time, we hereby state that the views expressed in the story were Mr. Yinka Odumakin’s and not representing that of General Muhammadu Buhari,” it said.
It also said Mr. Buhari, “respected for nobility and enviable character traits, is far removed from the grotesque characterization of frivolity by the newspaper.
“We advise the Management of the Nigerian Pilot Newspaper to be guided by enviable journalistic practice in future endeavours,” it said.
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