Abuja, Nigeria, 19 Feb 2015: The APC Presidential
Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) says it has evidence
that a top management staff of the Nigerian Maritime
Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) is behind the
dirty campaigns of hate against the presidential
candidate of APC, General Muhammadu Buhari and his
family aired in the recent documentary by AIT and
NTA.
The APCPCO's Director of Media and Publicity, Malam
Garba Shehu said that the Campaign Office has
confirmed that the agency was indeed the sponsor of
all the dirty campaigns against the APC presidential
candidate on AIT, NTA and several other media
platforms.
This, according to Shehu, contravenes the NIMASA Act,
the Public Service Regulations, and the INEC Act 2010
as amended, among others.
The APCPCO decried the situation where a government
agency uses public funds to sponsor a campaign of
calumny against its candidate, which it said is not only
illegal, but should also be condemned and investigated
by the Joint Committees of the National Assembly on
Marine Transportation.
If these claims were to be found to be true by the
Joint Committee, the statement said, disciplinary
action should be taken against the agency and its
leadership.
“It is a well known fact that the Director General of the
Agency, Mr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi was
President Goodluck Jonathan's aide and a well-known
ex-militant's errand boy. He was appointed there for
the sole aim of satisfying an ex-militant’s camp, an
assignment he has carried out well to the satisfaction
of those who put him there through the award of a
concessionaire phantom PPP project. Under this
contract, a certain company, (Global West Vessels
Specialists Ltd) was handed the legal responsibility of
the Nigerian Navy (NN) of protecting the Nation’s
Waterway and NIMASA’s Maritime Security function to
the surprise of all industry observers and yet fail
woefully in offering the necessary protection for the
theft of Nigerian Crude Oil, which has only increased
since then among other sea related crimes."
The statement also condemned the illegal use of public
funds by the chief executive of any government agency
to finance disparaging media campaign against an
opposition candidate.
The APCPCO decried the increasing helplessness of
regulatory agencies in the country, charged with the
certification of commercial advertising, that are now
being ignored by the PDP in placing libellous and
defamatory campaign materials against the opposition
in TV stations they control.
According to the statement, President Jonathan should
prove to Nigerians that he is sincerely committed to
the rule of law by taking immediate action against the
NIMASA boss.
"It is not enough for President Jonathan to claim he
doesn’t know the sponsors of smear adverts if he lacks
the courage to punish them once they are exposed,"
Shehu said.
Signed:
Garba Shehu
Directorate of Media and Publicity
APC Presidential Campaign Organisation
Plot 781 Herbert Macaulay Way
Central Area
Abuja.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=807093766035920. Buhari support organizations

This allegation is grave in nature but I think the APC campaign should be specific on what role NIMASA actually played in the propaganda.

Specify the role they play(ing) in this.

horlabiyi:
Specify the role they play(ing) in this.

can you read?they said they Sponsor.

Govt agencies have been use one way or the other to promote principal officers but I believe their are ethical ways to help with out milky Nigerians

They accuse me of everything but they can Never accuse me of CORRUPTION..
General Muhammadu Buhari

olatunji21:
They accuse me of everything but they can Never accuse me of CORRUPTION..
General Muhammadu Buhari

There are other things worse than corruption, e.g. indiscriminate murder and circumvention of the people's will through coup.
Certificate forgery, perjury and nepotism are forms of corruption and Buhari isn't exactly free of those.

APC you guys are clowns

Church against you according to Amaechi

Army against you according to Liar Mohammed

police against you

Nimasa against you

Tomorrow primary school students against you

Whatever.

Jonathan Till 2019.

this campaign has no effect on me at all it only deprived me of watching ait n nta since they started the calumny campaign. infact I had bet with handsome cash over this election.

so it's NIMASA? Are u sure?

Because APC goons here has always been saying it's PDP dat has been sponsoring those adverts.

Niaja