The All Progressives Congress has maintained that it
is not guilty of plagiarism in its ‘Next Level’ campaign logo.
There has been an allegation that the APC new campaign logo
launched last weekend with funfair was a plagiarised version of Rex Institute's
education programme logo.
The ruling party has been criticised by the opposition,
particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which accused the APC of being
culpable.
However, the APC Presidential Campaign Council has dismissed
the allegation, describing it as "useless, nonsensical and of no
consequence.”
Speaking on Thursday on the telephone, the spokesman
of the Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, said there is no similarity whatsoever
in the logo as it was being alleged.
He said: "It is not an issue worth responding
to. It is very nonsensical. We have released our campaign brochure and showed
the world our brochure with the logo on it which has nothing to do with any
American institute whatever.
"The arrow comes from the X not from the V,
whereas in the American brochure, the arrow came from the V. So there is no
similarity in colour, design or anything at all."
Keyamo said as far as the campaign council is concerned, it
is responsible for what it does, adding that any other thing done by various
groups working on their own cannot be attributed to the APC.
He chided those he accused of being behind the allegation,
especially the PDP, of engaging in frivolity and trivialising the essence of the
campaign which is to raise issues pertaining the progress and wellbeing of
Nigerians.
Keyamo had while defending the APC and Buhari over the issue
in a television programme yesterday alleged that the supporters of the PDP were
responsible for the 'pseudo' logo circulated on social media.
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