A group, Progressives Foundational Movement (PFM) accused the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) led government in Kano state of engaging in a smear campaign against the judiciary.
The group in a statement issued Thursday by its National Coordinator, Aganaba Johnson alleged that the NNPP government in Kano is engaging in the smear campaign through a series of false stories, manipulated analysis and paid propaganda.
It alleged that some of the fake CSOs engaged have already swung into action as the smear campaign has kick started with damning condemnation of the judiciary with a slogan “Justice for Kano…”
It said: “The aim, it was gathered, revolves around calling national attention by creating the impression that the justices of the election petition tribunal were not fair in the judgement, thereby creating aspersions on their persons and the judicial process as a whole.
“The faceless CSOs are said to be leveraging on technology and regular online sessions with support from social media platforms to achieve the objective of discrediting the judiciary.
“It was also learnt that columnists from newspapers and magazines have been reached out to work for the NNPP in the task of rubbishing the judiciary through spurious allegations.”
The group noted that in one of such fake news by the sponsored agents of the NNPP, was the allegation against the judiciary on the choice of Appeal Court panel of judges to handle appealed cases at the appellate court.
