I Won’t Sit Idle, Allow My Reputation Dragged in the Mud – Pantami

By Muhammad Ibrahim

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, has said that he is aware of well coordinated and richly funded campaign to drag his hard earned reputation to the mud.

The minister’s response is coming after the receipt of credible intelligence that some unnamed forces are willing to release a doctored videos in a compromise condition to create an injury on his image.

Pantami, in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, on 26the April, 2021, pledged that he won’t sit idle and allow his hard earned reputation dragged in the mud by paid agents linking him to terrorism.

“We are in receipt of credible intelligence that the same forces who have been championing a well-coordinated and richly funded campaign against the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, are now unto the next stage of their diabolic project.”

“This time around, the forces of evil are shopping for willing partners as well as their usual avenues, to release doctored videos purporting to show the Honourable Minister in an alleged compromising condition, as a way of creating injury on his image.

We are least surprised by this recent move which is a clear intensification of their desperation, having failed in their assault on the personality of the Honourable Minister, despite their previous efforts.”

“After concocting lies and half-truths linking the Honourable Minister with terrorism, despite his well-documented stance against Boko Haram and similar groups, these adversaries went to the extent of doctoring a document with capacity to endanger national security. It was a relief for peace-loving Nigerians that the gimmick also failed to strike that sensitive chord.”

“This notice therefore is to alert the public to the latest ungodly plan and to warn the perpetrators about the consequences of such action. The Honourable Minister will not sit idly to see his hard-earned reputation as a respected community leader, Islamic Scholar and public servant being muddled in the mud by paid agents with no adherence to truth and fear of God.”