APC ACCUSES FG OF PLANNING TO CREATE FAKE SHEKAU

The All Progressives Congress Presidential
Campaign Organisation has raised the
alarm about reports of a fake Abubakar
Shekau & Boko Haram leader
allegedly being paraded by the Federal
Government& which it says the
government intends to use to create an
impression that it is winning the war on
terrorism

It said credible sources had alerted the APC
that the fake Shekau might become a tool to
blackmail members of the opposition "by
coaching the phantom terror chief" to say
he was working for the opposition party
candidate Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari in order to link its presidential candidate to terrorism as it had attempted but failed in the past.

A statement by the Director of Media and
Publicity of the APCOPC Malam Garba Shehu wondered where the "new Shekau" would come from after government at several times in the past announced that it had killed the insurgents' leader.

"The charge to the military that they should catch Shekau alive by the President in the last 24 hours,
lends credence to the report that indeed a fake Shekau is about being created

The statement noted that "the profile of the
leader of the insurgents Shekau of a dedicated ideology " presupposed that the man was not likely to allow himself to be caught alive.

"It is both contradictory to the ideology he
preaches and the psychological profile that
the world has of him that Shekau would
allow himself to be caught alive;"the statement said.
The APCPCO recalled that the attack in
Kaduna on the party's presidential
candidate was believed by most
Nigerians that it was perpetrated by the Boko Haram;

It added; "The police that are
constitutionally empowered to investigate
and report on such incidents have not
contradicted the widespread belief that this
was a Boko Haram's attack;
"The view of the APC is that it does not make
sense for General Muhammadu Buhari to
be in league with or be associated
in any way with people who have set out to
kill him