According to
reports reaching Lailasnews.com, The UK Guardian has released a video of how
Cambridge Analytica allegedly sought to influence the 2015 presidential
election.
In the video, graphically violent images were used to portray
President Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), as a supporter of Sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and
negotiate with extremist groups.
Christopher Wylie,
a whistleblower, had told British members of parliament (MPs) that the video
was distributed in Nigeria with the sole intent of intimidating voters.
The Cable gathered that
Wylie also said Cambridge Analytica directed AggregateIQ (AIQ), the Canadian
digital services firm that worked for Vote Leave during Britain’s EU
referendum, to target voters with the video during the presidential campaign.
Wylie, a former Cambridge
Analytica employee, has now handed the material to MPs.
Giving testimony last week,
he said:
“Cambridge Analytica sent
AggregateIQ the video after they [CA] got banned from several online ad
networks because the graphic nature of the content violated the terms of
service. AIQ was quite freaked out about it. It’s a very disturbing video. They
told Cambridge Analytica that. They called it ‘the murder video’.”
Cambridge Analytica was
reportedly hired by a Nigerian billionaire to run a campaign in support of
former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“Coming to Nigeria on
February 15th 2015,” the voiceover says in the manner of a trailer for a
Hollywood movie. “Dark. Scary. And very uncertain. Sharia for all.” It poses
the question: “What would Nigeria look like if sharia were imposed by Buhari?”
It suggests he would strike a deal with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram
that would be “a pact with the devil”. The video also suggests “Buhari will
punish all who speak against the regime” and that “women will be veiled”. It
ends by saying: “You can stop this movie becoming real.”
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