By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has lambasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over its “flopped” membership registration drive.
In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said that the three-week extension of the APC’s membership registration would not change the public rejection that greeted the exercise and the party.
The PDP also alleged that the APC had become stuck with its “phony exercise” following serious confusion and violent disagreements in its fold after the plot to announce humongous fictitious figures and presenting a heavily padded membership register was busted.
It stated: “Our party is already aware of the confusion in the APC after genuine report from the field indicated a huge reduction in APC membership profile, given that more than half of its members across the federation
refused to revalidate their membership while most regular Nigerians who they approached, responded with vehement apathy.
“Nigerians are also aware of the bitter disagreement among desperate APC power mongers from Kogi, Lagos and Kaduna states over allocation of membership figures as well as location for final compilation of APC fictitious membership inventory.”
It further said that the public now know why the APC desperately sidestepped its original membership register, as revealed by the recent outburst of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
The main opposition party pointed out that it was instructive that Nigerians have rejected the APC despite being lured with money in Taraba, Kogi, Imo, Kaduna and other states despite the threats in Kano as well as attempt at night registration in Enugu and some other states.
According to it, such rejection only validates that majority of Nigerians were not ready to dine on the same table with the APC.
The PDP therefore advised the APC not to waste its time with the exercise as such cannot change the reality of its rejection by Nigerians.
It however commended Nigerians for not allowing the APC, a party that has brought so much devastation, pain and anguish to beguile and trap them again with a fraudulent membership drive.
