By Daniel Atori, Minna


A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State and a former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Jonathan Tsado Vatsa has said that the ruling party has no moral right to sponsor the hate speech bill or any law for that matter that seek to gag the press.

Speaking at the Social Media Summit in Minna, organised by the Progressive Media Practitioners (PMP), Vatsa said the ruling APC benefitted immensely “from this thing we call hate speech”
“Before 2015, I can remember, we used all forms of propaganda against the ruling PDP, we said anything to make sure that the people hated the party.

“Our focus at that time was to ensure that we discredited the then ruling party and we won. We should not be afraid of the poison we gave PDP that time.

“Personally I will not be a party to a law that will gag the press. In some other climes, people would have commenced the process of recalling the sponsor of that bill,” Vatsa asserted.

He commended former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida for throwing his weight behind those opposed to the bill and advised those behind the bill to sponsor bills that will impact positively on ordinary Nigerians.

The convener of the summit, Prince Daniel Atori in his welcome address, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to impress upon the lawmakers on the need for them to provide dividends of democracy to the people rather than embarking on a wild goose chase of making laws that are of no benefit to the people.

We rode to power in 2015 through hate speech.“We (APC) brought hate speech to Nigeria politics and I am one of them.

“As a Publicity Secretary of the APC, I know how we used hate speech to mobilize Nigerians against the then ruling party.And it paid off because Nigerians eventually hated the Peoples Democratic Party.“Before 2015, Nigerians did not know anything like hate speech.

“In fact, since the return of democracy in 1999, we are just hearing about hate speech.APC as a political party brought hate to politics in form of propaganda.“The truth must be told: we are the architect of hate speech and nobody complained about it.

“We enjoyed it and it worked for us.If we think we have failed Nigerians in our change promises, we should be bold enough to tell Nigerians that we are sorry, we couldn’t deliver, but to try to cage them by trying to introduce or recycle Decree 4 of 1984 in the name of hate speech is unacceptable.”

ornicus:
Look at this illiterate.what hate speech was made against pdp? Pdp were the ones spewing hate speech.then, anyone with issues with gej was immediately tagged a supporter of APC boko haram sympathizer. From Bola Tinubu to Buhari to sanusi.

People keep saying Lai Muhammed is a liar, but that is the real lie.all lai Muhammed did was use pdp's own incompetence and avarice as a propaganda tool against them .

When you have a president saying stealing is not corruption, dancing at a rally a day after an attack by boko haram, looking completely clueless in a hospital, giving pardons to people like AL Mustapha and bode George, what lies do you need to tell?

ornicus:
Look at this illiterate.what hate speech was made against pdp? Pdp were the ones spewing hate speech.then, anyone with issues with gej was immediately tagged a janja-weed boko haram sympathizer. From Bola Tinubu to Buhari to sanusi.

People keep saying Lai Muhammed is a liar, but that is the real lie.all lai Muhammed did was use pdp's own incompetence and avarice as a propaganda tool against them .

When you have a president saying stealing is not corruption, dancing at a rally a day after an attack by boko haram, looking completely clueless in a hospital, giving pardons to people like AL Mustapha and bode George, what lies do you need to tell?

See how bad it was? This forum is still correcting janja-weed to apc supporter. Enter it and see for yourself. And these pdp 'activists' are still playing on the empty brains of the tacha worshipping yoots