By Ihechi Enyinnsya
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its flopped membership registration drive, noting that its three weeks extension will not change the public rejection that greeted the exercise and the APC as a party.
The PDP berated APC for becoming stuck with its phony exercise
following serious confusion and violent disagreements in their fold,
after their plot to announce humongous fictitious figures and presenting
a heavily padded membership register was busted.
In a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan National Publicity Secretary of the party, the PDP said it was 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.
“The public now know why the APC desperately sidestepped its original
membership register, in the fraudulent exercise, as revealed by the
recent outburst of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed.
“It is indeed 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.
“Such rejection only goes to validate the fact that majority of Nigerians
are not ready to dine on the same table with the APC, even with the
longest of spoons.
“The PDP therefore counsels the APC not to waste its time with the
shenanigan of an extension as such cannot change the reality of their
rejection by Nigerians.
“Our party commends Nigerians for not allowing the APC, a party that has brought so much devastation, pain and anguish and which has nothing to offer for the future of our nation, to beguile and trap them again with fraudulent membership drive.”
The PDP appreciates the overwhelming support our party has been
receiving from Nigerians as we work together in the national consensus
to rescue our nation from the misrule of the APC by reelecting the PDP
come 2023, so as to return our nation to the path of peace, national
cohesion and economic prosperity.