Former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus
Keyamo, has attacked the European Union Election Observation Missions, EU-EOM,
report accusing him of propagating fake news days to the 2023 general election
in Nigeria.
Keyamo claimed the report did not deserve his response
because “it was so presumptuous and outside their mandate”.
Recall that the report listed Keyamo and Femi Fani-Kayode,
as part of personalities that spread fake news ahead of the 2023 general
elections.
In a statement via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday,
the former minister also alleged that the EU-EOM report “exposed a deep-seated
bias about how the so-called observers went about their assignment.”
He wrote, “The part of the EU report that asserts that there
was a single incident throughout the whole campaign where I retweeted a news
item by a ‘suspicious website’ does not deserve my response because it is so
presumptuous and outside their mandate and exposes a deep-seated bias about how
the so-called observers went about their assignment. However, for the education
of the gullible and unfortunate ones who are jubilating over such a poor
report, I will say a word or two”.
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