Northern Forum Wants Those Behind Fake Protest Against Matawalle Investigated

 

Bello Matawalle
Minister of State
for Defence

The Concerned Northern Forum (CNF) has cleared a misconception on the recent attacks on Honourable Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle through a sponsored fake protest calling on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to investigate him.

Addressing a press conference in Kaduna, the Chairman of the forum Alhaji Aliyu Muhammad Sani described the protest as another shameless and dishonest act perpetrated by a so-called faceless and non-existent group that claimed to be All Progressives Congress Young Leaders Alliance (APC-YLA), who took to the street in another charade of a protest demanding the probe of Matawalle.

"This is nothing but another episode in the series of sponsored, devilish, and character-damaging campaigns by certain unpatriotic, dishonest enemies of democracy, threatened by the gigantic successes achieved by the Minister and the opposition who have allegedly set aside a sum of 2 billion naira for such purposes. 

"Behold, all their series of campaigns are nowhere close to the truth but are full of jargon, falsehoods, and devilish notes meant for destructive purposes. You are all aware this is not their first, they have tried with different organizations and persons who have all failed, but they have refused to back down and accept the truth. 

"We are here to expose them to Nigerians, reveal their real identities as the criminals and frauds that they are, and bring an end to their sponsored and unpatriotic plot. Hence; the APC-YLA is non-existent and nonfunctional and has only surfaced for the purpose of a campaign of calumny against Defence Minister Matawalle.

"Its address is fake; it is a marketplace that carries no bearing or any precise direction; it is a formulation to serve its scandalous agenda.The crowd for the protest was absurd; only a few of them were above 18, and the rest were minors and hired; they knew nothing about APC-YLA or Matawalle but were offered pea nuts and used to serve the agenda of the sponsors by holding placards and chanting slogans they knew nothing about. 

 

"In the same vein, we are reporting to the APC, whose organization's reputation is dragged to serve this devilish purpose, who is possibly infiltrated. We are also petitioning the group to APC and relevant security agencies to take immediate note and action against these imposters as we believe some of them are not even members of the APC. Furthermore, we demand a full list and membership details of their members and organizations".

The group expressed hope that the APC will never allow the ruling party to be used as a tool for a witch hunt or a subject of personal attack. It also, expressed confidence that the security agencies will not rest until these imposters are checkmated.

"We maintain that this madness must stop, sanity must return and the normal status quo must be followed" it stressed.