The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has challenged
Nigerians to make public one thing he said that was not true.
He threw the challenge in reaction to comments by Nigerians
who call him “lie” Mohammed due to his alleged perceived
bias for the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal
Government.
The Minister noted that such comments were the mindset of
the people and a price he had to pay for serving the nation.
Speaking in Abuja, on Friday, Mohammed said, “People just
have a mindset that whatever Lai Mohammed says cannot be
true, but nobody has ever come out to say that I said `Y’ and
it was `Z’ that happened.
“For me, I will remain focused because it is a price you pay
for serving your country.
“I also see this as a deliberate strategy to whittle me down,
but I must remain focused and will not be distracted.”
The Minister stressed that some Nigeriand were finding it
difficult to separate him from “Lai Mohammed as All
Progressive Congress (APC) spokesperson and Lai
Mohammed, Minister of Information’’.
He
added, “I believe sincerely that the last election was fought
very bitterly and I was largely the face of the party and I kept
asking them to fight me on facts, not on emotions.
“Give me one thing that I have said which is not true.
“There is a Yoruba proverb that says that you can only wake
up somebody who is sleeping, you cannot wake up a fellow
who is pretending to fall asleep.”
The Minister recalled how he told the world on December 5,
2015 that Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” and
nobody believed him but today he had been vindicated.
“However, when you are fighting insurgency, it is not like
regular war that you win at once, there will still be suicide
bombing
“There will still be ambush but that does not mean that we
have not won the war,” he added.
