A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, on Monday said the online application, Uberfacts, “targeted” supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, because “they needed followers from Nigeria”.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Garba’s observation comes against the backdrop of a post by Uberfacts about the alleged past drug dealings of Bola Tinubu, the former National Leader of the APC and president-elect of Nigeria. Uberfacts has over 13 million followers on the social networking site, Twitter.
In a Twitter post made on Monday morning, Uberfacts said Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court found the income came from heroin trafficking.
But reacting to the post, Garba, a one-time presidential hopeful, said ÜberFacts baited supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, adding that the narratives by the platform are “vague”.
“I think the dumbest group on global Twitter are Obidiots. They’re so confused that they’re looking for validation from all corners. Knowing that they needed followers from Nigeria, @UberFacts targeted Obidiots (referring to supporters of Obi) with their vague narratives. Trust them, they all jump at it. Jokers!” he wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
