Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has stated that the attacks from the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not stop it from going on with rallies in support of the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
TAN also dared the opposition party to counter the documented evidences presented on the achievements of the President.
In a statement on Monday, the group also debunked claims that it was being funded by the federal government through its numerous ministries, agencies or departments.
APC spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had in statement on Sunday said Jonathan’s refusal to stop the rallies was an evidence that he was behind TAN.
He said the fact that the rallies were being coordinated by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, ministers, governors and other public office holders, showed that TAN had the President’s backing.
However, speaking through its director of communications and strategy, Udenta O Udenta, TAN said: “We are yet to see just one counter electronic media programming attacking our well-researched documentation of developments occurring in different national sectors in the past three and half years, or just one OP-ED refuting the veracity of our presentations.
“What is served us daily from Lai Mohammed’s Verkhovenskian imagination is the torrent of well rehearsed falsehood, empty political prattle, pompous self-enfoolment dressed up as political fact, self-righteous indignation that bothers on pious cant and excess of bellicosity demeaning of a democrat.
“As we await just one deconstructive reading of TAN by the APC, we will resign ourselves, as Nigerians have already done, to Lai Mohammed’s stale mythologies of politics and power and gross ritualization of inconsequential political fables which have no bearing to truth”.
On the funding of TAN’s activities, Udenta explained that TAN had neither sought nor received a kobo from the Federal government, all its ministries, agencies or department in executing its programmes and projects.
“Anybody who has evidence to the contrary should present same to the public or shut up for good”, he added.
“But for those who are set on an inexorable course of political perdition through the irrational criminalization of opinions, perspectives and viewpoints that counter theirs they earn, not our condemnation nor even contempt, they earn our sympathy given the surreal cloud of ethical infamy that envelops the political spaces they dwell in”, concluded the statement.
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