The South – South zonal organizing secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Blessing Agbomhere, Sunday, warned social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan to stop slandering the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, under the guise criticism.
Barrister Ogbomhere in a personally signed statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, described as unwarranted and slanderous the verbal attack heaped on the person of Akpabio by Otse for leading a five-man federal government delegation to the funeral of Pope Francis last Saturday at the Vatican.
Otse had in a three minute viral video on social media, described Akpabio’s visit to Rome as shameful, insisting that the President of the Senate lacked the moral standing to attend the Pope’s funeral which he would have used to visit Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Ogun and Enugu states that are currently bedeviled by large scale insecurity as a result of attacks by marauding herdsmen which has led to the death of scores of innocent Nigerians.
Irked by the verbal assault, Agbomhere in the statement said, “This individual known as VeryDarkMan is now notorious for blackmail, slander and character assassination while pretending to be an advocate for the masses and social crusader.
“The unwarranted verbal attack on the President of the Senate is yet another of such aimless, baseless and uninformed diatribe, this time, targeted at the number three citizen of Nigeria who did not send himself to Rome but was duly nominated by President Bola Tinubu to lead a strong five man delegation to represent Nigeria at the Pope’s funeral. What exactly is wrong in that?
“Being a devout Catholic and family man with unblemished character, President Tinubu saw in Akpabio a worthy ambassador of Nigeria to such an event as the Pope’s funeral and wasted no time in thrusting that responsibility on him.
“Just like the Scriptures admonished Christians to celebrate with those that are celebrating and to mourn with those that are bereaved the Nigerian delegation led by Akpabio joined the rest of the world to mourn the passing of the Head of the Catholic Church, what is wrong in that?
“I am, with this statement, issuing VeryDarkMan a one week ultimatum to immediately tender an unreserved apology to the President of the Senate for the slanderous comments and to desist from further bringing the integrity of the President Bola Tinubu led administration into disrepute in the eyes of the global community.” the statement read in parts”.
He urged Nigerians to ignore the uninformed ranting of VeryDarkMan, adding that the current administration is working assiduously behind the scene to tackle the pervasive insecurity across the country which it inherited from previous administrations.