Lons­dale Saatchi & Saatchi Ad­ver­tis­ing Lim­it­ed, along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man, Ken­rick At­tale, are cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­fut­ing what it calls the base­less and defam­a­to­ry al­le­ga­tions made by the “Kick Out the PNM” Face­book page.

In a state­ment the com­pa­ny said the page false­ly claimed that it is en­gaged in a smear cam­paign in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a po­lit­i­cal par­ty and two me­dia hous­es.

“Since our es­tab­lish­ment in 1953, Lons­dale Saatchi & Saatchi has re­mained com­mit­ted to eth­i­cal ad­ver­tis­ing and has nev­er par­tic­i­pat­ed in any elec­tion cam­paign in any ca­pac­i­ty. These ac­cu­sa­tions are en­tire­ly false and with­out mer­it,” it said.

The agency said it takes this mat­ter se­ri­ous­ly and will pur­sue all avail­able le­gal av­enues to ad­dress this “de­lib­er­ate mis­in­for­ma­tion”.