APC’s registration to produce 28m fake members –PDP

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh

The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the All Progressives Congress is planning to produce 28 million fake members in the ongoing registration exercise of the opposition party.

It therefore described the exercise as “a ruse”.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who stated this at a news briefing in Abuja on Friday, alleged that the aim of the APC was to disrupt the conduct of 2015 general elections.

He said, “Our  great party has received  reports from various states, calling its attention to  an ongoing, well-planned clandestine move by the  APC  to lay mines in the way of a successful conduct of 2015 general elections,  using its nationwide membership registration as a ruse.

“It is very unfortunate that while the PDP-led Federal Government is solidifying the  foundation of a credible electoral system it has already laid, and the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to release the final details of the 2015 general elections timetable, which is still a year ahead, the APC is already introducing weird inventions, calculated to ruin the process and the huge expectations of Nigerians and the international community.”

He said while his party was not against the registration exercise of members of the APC, it was clear from the statements, actions and the activities of the leaders of the APC, that the opposition merely changed names without changing its character.

Metuh said, “Our investigations revealed that part of the plot by the APC is to use this fraudulent membership registration exercise to hype a phantom  public support after which it will declare a particular bogus figure and  create a false impression of massive public followership ahead of the  2015 general elections.

“The party is already planning to come up with between 28 and 29 million members.”

He also alleged that the opposition party intended to use the figure as a “justification to fault, dispute, reject and subsequently take to violence when it loses the 2015 general elections.

“ This fraudulent membership figure, meant to create a nonexistent mass  followership is to be maniacally presented, projected and defended by  the APC, using its well-known unethically hypodermic propaganda tools as  an anticipated voter strength, below which it will carry out its  threat to unleash mayhem on the nation as contained in its allegory of the monkey, the baboon and blood.”