The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the author of hate speeches in the country.

The opposition party discredited a statement by Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that the party was promoting disunity with its hate speeches.

Spokesman for the PDP, Prince Dayo Adeyeye in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, recalled some of the statements he alleged were made by Mohammed as the spokesman for the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and the APC before he was appointed a minister.

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He asked Mohammed to review his past speeches and statements as the spokesman for the opposition ACN/APC.

The statement said, “In case Lai Mohammed has forgotten, let us remind him and his parties, the ACN and the APC that in their desperate quest to grab power by all means, organised and carried out a series of campaigns of calumny as the opposition designed to mislead the public, discredit the person and office of past PDP-led administrations especially, that of the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in order to cause disaffection amongst Nigerians against his government.

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“Mohammed as the spokesman for the ACN at a press conference in April 2013, raised a false alarm alleging that the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Jonathan had awarded an oil pipeline protection contract to serve as a smokescreen in funding activities that would create chaos in the South-West region.

“Of course, it turned out that no such contract was ever awarded by the Jonathan administration.”

Adeyeye also alleged that President Buhari had also made hate speeches that caused wide spread violence and killings of Nigerians in the 2011 general elections.

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