APC chieftain to VeryDarkMan: Draw line between activism, slander

APC chieftain to VeryDarkMan: Draw line between activism, slander

The South South Zonal Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Blessing Agbomhere, has warned social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse popularly known as VeryDarkMan, to draw a line between activism and character assassination.

Agbomhere, also told VeryDarkMan to immediately tender an unreserved apology to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio over what he called an unwarranted and slanderous verbal attack against him (Akpabio), for leading a five man federal government delegation to the funeral of Pope Francis last Saturday at the Vatican.

In a three minute viral video on social media, VeryDarkMan had described Akpabio’s visit to Rome as shameful, insisting that the President of the Senate lacked the moral standing to attend the Pope’s funeral when he would have used less time to visit Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Ogun and Enugu states that are currently under attacks by marauding herdsmen which has led to the death of scores of innocent Nigerians.

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But in a statement on Sunday, the South South Zonal Organizing Secretary of the APC issued a stern warning to VeryDarkMan urging him to desist from “slandering law abiding and critical stakeholders in project Nigeria, all in the name of activism.”

According to the statement: “This individual known as VeryDarkMan is now notorious for blackmail, slander and character assassination while pretending to be an advocate for the masses and social crusader.

“The unwarranted verbal attack on the President of the Senate is yet another of such aimless, baseless and uninformed diatribe, this time, targeted at the number three citizen of Nigeria who did not send himself to Rome but was duly nominated by President Bola Tinubu to lead a strong five man delegation to represent Nigeria at the Pope’s funeral. What exactly is wrong in that?

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“Being a devout Catholic and family man with unblemished character, President Tinubu saw in Akpabio a worthy ambassador of Nigeria to such an event as the Pope’s funeral and wasted no time in thrusting that responsibility on him.

“Just like the Scriptures admonished Christians to celebrate with those that are celebrating and to mourn with those that are bereaved, the Nigerian delegation led by Akpabio joined the rest of the world to mourn the passing of the Head of the Catholic Church, what is wrong in that?

“I am, with this statement, issuing VeryDarkMan a one week ultimatum to immediately tender an unreserved apology to the President of the Senate for the slanderous comments and to desist from further bringing the integrity of the President Bola Tinubu led administration into disrepute in the eyes of the global community.”

Agbomhere urged Nigerians to ignore what he described as “the uninformed ranting” of VeryDarkMan, adding that the current administration is working assiduously behind the scene to tackle the pervasive insecurity across the country which it inherited from previous administrations.