The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied an allegation by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, that it was operating an illegal radio station.
APC’s national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, said on Friday that the party did not own any radio station.
The spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani Kayode, On 19th March alleged that the opposition party was operating an illegal radio station – Radio Change.
“We don’t have any radio station anywhere and since the PDP is the one making such allegations they may perhaps be privy to what others don’t know,” Mohammed said.
But Mr Mohammed stressed that it was the responsibility of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to track illegal radio stations in Nigeria.
“Where is the information about the Radio Change.
“We in the APC know nothing about this radio station. If anybody should know, I think I should know.
“They should ask Fani-Kayode and the NBC who set up this radio. Since the National Broadcasting Commission is an organisation of the Federal Government it should be able to track such radio stations and tell Nigerians where it is located. Where is it? We have no hand in it. We have nothing to do with it. We do not know about its existent.
“Their desperation knows no bound. They are looking for all excuses to go and arrest our leaders. But they will fail woefully. They have lost this election,” he said.
The APC said the rumours about an illegal radio station were cooked up by the ruling party in order to distract Nigerians from topical issues.
“It is a clear show of jitters about its imminent loss in the March 28 elections,” Mr Mohammed said.
The PDP had asked the NBC to set its house in order while ensuring that its rules are followed. It requested that the Commission should use all means available to stop the illegal radio from operating and if necessary block its illegal operations.
“The objective of the radio station is to serve as a propaganda tool to fight the PDP-led government after the APC loses the elections on March 28,” Fani-Kayode told reporters.
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