*It’s another tissue of lies, says  Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation

BY KAYODE MATTHEW and KINGSLEY OMONOBI
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, alleged, yesterday, a fresh move to silence its leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by those who are worried by his rising political profile across the country.

It specifically claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan had been under serious pressure having an offence on Tinubu’s neck with a view to taking him out of circulation, a change swiftly denounced by the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation as “another tissue of lies.”

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary of the ACN at a press conference in Lagos said: “We have it on good authority that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice is being put under tremendous pressure to look for any offence, no matter how flimsy, to get Tinubu arrested and prosecuted – just to put him away.

“Whatever may be the reason for his impending arrest is a smokescreen. What offence could he have committed that has taken the authorities almost four years to seek his arrest? Is this coincidence in timing between the arrest and the forthcoming general elections not striking?”

Alhaji Mohammed stated further that those who are behind this plot have been meeting across the country to perfect their plan and that in one of the meetings they said everything must be done to stop the putative alliance between ACN and the CPC which they see as capable of ending the years of misrule by the PDP.

But in a swift reaction, the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organization described the allegation as another ’tissue of lies’.

Mr. Sully Abu, Director, Media and Publicity of the Campaign Organisation said: “The problem with some politicians is that they imagine that others are as corrupt and desperate as they are”.

He called on the security agencies to investigate Mohammed’s “outrageous claims”  that “1 billion dollars have been secretly and hurriedly shared out to the states from the excess crude oil accounts, just to secure support for President Jonathan and give his backers the necessary war chest needed to fight ahead of April’s election.”