The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Saturday threatened to sue presidential spokesperson, Femi Fani-Kayode, for claiming that General Muhammadu Buhari is getting funding for his election campaign from terrorist groups, such as Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

The APC's threat was contained in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, in Abuja.
It accused the Director of Media of the PDP's presidential campaign of perpetuating the religious politics that his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan is well known for.He gave Fani-Kayode one week to retract his defamatory comments or face the law.

But Fani-Kayode, while reacting to the APC threat insisted that the party should answer the question posed to them on whether their presidential candidate, Buhari, can guarantee that not one dollar of Al-Qaeda, ISIS or ISIL (terrorist groups) money has been used to support his presidential campaign.

The APC statement partly read, "Never before in Nigeria's history has the issue of religion been applied to such sinister purposes as we have seen during the years of President Jonathan's government. When all fails, they whip out the religious card."

Shehu expressed relief that Nigerians were no more being fooled by what he called "this PDP game."

According to him, Buhari has transcended all the religious smears and, together with his running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, who is a respected pastor, has been able to show the Nigerian people that Nigeria's growth and development is not about religion, but about a genuine desire to change the lot of the country's citizens and move the entire nation forward.

The statement also said, "A majority of the world's Muslims, including Buhari, do not approve of the Al-Qaeda, and being Muslim does not translate into being pro-ISIS. "Again and again, Buhari has shown commitment to ridding our country of these vermin who claim to be killing in the name of Allah, but who, in actual fact, are messengers of Satan."

The APC campaign gave advanced warning that when it takes the matter of Fani-Kayode's claims to the court next week, it will ask that the PDP spokesperson's international passport be impounded.

According to the APC, there are some campaigners who intend to escape from Nigeria after the handover of government from Jonathan to Buhari on May 29. That must be the reason why they can boldly make many of the reckless, irresponsible and defamatory statements that they have been mouthing off," it said.

The APCCO further warned that it would not extend the seven-day deadline given to Fani-Kayode to retract his false allegations.

Fani-Kayode, in a statement however said it was a pity that supposed educated persons could not make a distinction between a question and an assertion.

He said, "It is a pity that these people are not well educated. They cannot even make a distinction between a question and an assertion. Rather than asking me to retract or withdraw the question, they should just answer it and stop misbehaving.‎
"If they are waiting for a retraction to our questions, they will wait forever. Hell will freeze over before we retract any question that we have put out. We will not retract any question, rather we will continue to put more uncomfortable questions to them until they provide answers by saying yes or no.
"We have made no assertion, we have simply asked a set of legitimate, responsible, sensitive and important questions, and we have every right to do so."

He added, "Millions of Nigerians are interested in knowing whether the answers to the questions that we have raised are 'yes' or 'no'. These are legitimate questions which need to be answered in a most honest and transparent manner.
"If the answers to the questions are 'no', Buhari should just say so, and we will take it up from there."

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