By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, said the outburst by the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has confirmed that the ongoing APC membership
revalidation and registration exercise was a huge scam designed to allocate
fictitious figures and inflate the APC membership register.
The PDP also mocked the APC over “the free for all fight by desperate
factions fighting for the control of allocated figures at its phony membership revalidation exercise held at the Banquet Hall of the Kwara State Government House, Ilorin, which further exposes the exercise as a
monumental swindle.”
The PDP lampooned the APC leaders over what it described as “the public apathy that has greeted the exercise, despite the deployment of huge financial resources,” stating that such was a further confirmation that Nigerians have rejected the ruling party.
A statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the opposition party, which TheNiche is in possession of said:
“Nigerians are already aware that the purpose of the APC membership
revalidation exercise is to produce inflated membership figures to
assist the APC to allocate fictitious votes for itself in the 2023
elections; a scheme that is dead on arrival.
“Moreover, no Nigerian would want to join a party of fraudsters,
manipulators, political bandits and liars, which has ruined our country
and expended its goodwill on the altar of violence, deception and
insensitivity to the needs of the people.
“The world watched the show of shame as APC members clashed in bloody
brawl, assailing and inflicting injuries on one another with dangerous
objects and destroying public property over control of a list of
fictitious members.
“The PDP has only but pity for delusional APC leaders who are yet to come
to terms with the fact that the APC as a party is already dead and that
Nigerians cannot be swayed by a fake membership revalidation and a
conjured membership figure.
“Our party therefore commends Chief Bisi Akande for his courage in speaking out on the shenanigans in the APC, including the antics of the illegal national caretaker committee.”
PDP said meddling with the party’s membership register confirms the fraud inherent in the exercise.
“We also note Chief Akande’s declaration on the waste of resources in the
scandalous exercise, which further shows APC’s insensitivity to the
plight of suffering Nigerians.
“This is more so as there are allegations that the APC is financing the
revalidation exercise with funds meant for provision of very important
COVID-19 essentials to Nigerians.”
The PDP however counseled Chief Akande and other well-meaning Nigerians “still trapped in the APC, not to continue to waste their energy and goodwill on a dead and rejected party.”
The opposition party urged Nigerians to disregard the APC and
remain steadfast in rallying on its own platform in what it described as “the collective effort to rescue our nation from the misrule of the APC.”