Popular Columnist and Author, Farooq Kperogi has commented on a recent statement by a faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of succumbing to ‘Blackmail’.
The Oshiomole/Tinubu led NWC faction, in a response to President Buhari’s backing of Victor Giadom as acting National chairman and declaration to attend a virtual NEC meeting convened by the Rivers Politician, stated that the President was ‘blackmailed’ into making that decision.
Reacting to the development, Kpeerogi, in an article titled ‘Unprecedentedly Damaging Allegation Against Buhari by Tinubu’s APC Faction’, stated that the Giadom Faction has ‘damaging’ information on Mr Buhari.
“The Tinubu/Ajimobi faction of APC said in a press release today that Buhari was “blackmailed into lending his weighty office to” the Victor Giadom faction of the party. “Blackmail”? Ha!”
“Blackmail is the threat to harm or expose reputationally injurious information about a person unless the person does what the blackmailer wants.”
“In other words, according to the press release, the Giadom faction has damaging information about Buhari that Buhari doesn’t want the world to know and that it was the threat to expose this information that compelled Buhari to lend his symbolic stamp of approval to the faction.”
“Blackmail of a sitting president is unprecedented! So what’s the damaging information the Giadom faction used to blackmail Buhari? Evidence of vast corrupt enrichment? Proof of the 2019 electoral heist that gave Buhari a fraudulent second term?”
“What spooky skeleton is Buhari hiding in his closet that a faction of his political party is allegedly using against him? Whatever it is, it’s got to be truly earth-shattering! Let’s all watch the unfolding unravelling of Buhari and APC. Who knows if Tinubu and his proteges also have damaging information to blackmail Buhari into reversing himself?” he wrote.
