Pantami raises alarm of doctored videos against him by unknown persons

The embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, on Monday, April 26, warned Nigerians that some unnamed persons were planning to release some doctored videos against him.

Pantami made this disclosure via a statement issued in Abuja by his media aide, Uwa Suleiman.

The Minister said the move was the next stage of the forces against him.

There had been calls for the resignation of the minister; after his controversial comments on the activities of terrorists emerged on social media.

Although the minister had renounced the comments and insisted that he made them out of immaturity in the past; many Nigerians still insisted that he should resign or be sacked.

But on Monday, Pantami said, “We are in receipt of credible intelligence that the same forces; who have been championing a well-coordinated and richly funded campaign against 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 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 minister, despite their previous efforts.”

The minister said the notice was to alert the public to the latest plan and to warn the perpetrators about the consequences of such action.

Meanwhile, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has beseeched the Federal Government to seek help where necessary to regain peace in the country; and chart a way forward without using Nigerians as victims.

Soyinka made this call on Sunday, April 25, in response to the killings across the country by bandits; terrorists; and other gunmen in the country.

Professor Soyinka decried that these gunmen have sacrificed and traumatised the country’s youths beyond their capacity to cope.

“The already over-stretched sinews of moral restraint have been snapped off the casing of nation being; and nothing is left but the collective wails of impotence. Not for the first time; what many hoped was a Natural Law of Limitations has been contemptuously, defiantly breached.