Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned the @APCNigeria Twitter handle, a verified Twitter account managed by one Mr. Philip Obin who tweets via @PhilipObin.
The APC in a statement on Friday distanced itself from Mr. Obin and the said @APCNigeria Twitter handle noting that Mr. Obin has continued to impersonate the party through the Twitter handle, “@APCNigeria” despite several warnings and disclaimers.
Read the statement below:
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 unauthorised 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 doubts, 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.
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.
SIGNED:
Edegbe Odemwingie
Assistant Director, Publicity
All Progressives Congress (APC)
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Nura Sabo Anku
April 6, 2018 at 10:37 pm
Apc are trying to save face after their cover was blown by Reno. Disowning Philip Obin doesn’t change anything. If we are being truthful how did Philip get the official handle to use if he doesn’t work for the Apc in the first place? Their lies are being exposed everyday. They better accept the fact that in this situation they’ve been exposed. They can’t lie their way out of this one. Dms were sent to Reno,whether it was through Philip or not the Apc official handle is involved. Lying their way out of this is like adding salt to injury.
Nura Sabo Anku
April 7, 2018 at 1:31 am
Blatant lie. Oh this APC is full of deceiving and fakeries. They can’t even manage their affairs then why do you expecting them to manage the affairs of this nation, absolutely impossible because it’s a party that was built based propaganda and lies and run by amateurs and incompetent.
Let me urge Nigerians that we shall all follow the foot step of Reno Omokri to do everything under the law (i.e legally) and democratically to unseat this old man that deserved to be in his retirement home now not our Aso Rock. Reno Omokri have been telling the facts and keep exposing this clueless administration no matter how bitter it may sound to them. The truth is bitter and APC and PMB are full of hypocritical in fact they are disastrous that we need to evacuate them.