The Peoples Democratic Party says the string of false alarms and
outright lies that characterized Wednesday’s press conference addressed
by the All Progressives Congress has clearly justified its profiling as a
party of ‘one week, one lie’.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on
Wednesday said Nigerians are, however, not surprised that the APC has
officially adopted the use of fabrications having exhausted its fake
campaign promises which were not able to upstage the verifiable
achievements of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP administration.
“Indeed, Nigerians are not surprised at the contents of the recent
false alarms by the APC as they are undoubtedly a reflection of the
character, inner thoughts and ideology of its leaders. These ignoble
ideas are clearly incompatible with the ideology of the PDP and
President Jonathan who has overtime demonstrated the qualities of a true
democrat and not a reformed one,” the party said.
The PDP noted that the opposition in its penchant for falsehood
failed to realize that under the current financial system, it is
practically impossible to transfer the so called humongous amount of
money into any bank account without the source being traced by relevant
independent financial monitoring bodies like the EFCC.
“In any case, we note that the allegation by APC is suspect and
betrays an attempt to cover-up. We ask, is it that the APC has already
been paying monies into accounts of INEC officials and some institutions
of government with a view to compromising them and is now using the
allegation as a subterfuge to distract the financial monitoring agencies
and cover its tracks?
“We challenge the APC to come out clear on the actual link between
its leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, whose antecedents and reputation are
well known to all, and the said transfer plot? Was Tinubu’s name also
dropped by the APC as a strategy to pre-empt findings by anti-graft
agencies in a bid to cover a crime?
“Whilst we note that nothing is beyond a desperate party like the
APC, which has continued to manifest its crass lack of integrity, we
charge relevant agencies to immediately investigate the allegations and
possibly unravel its evil plots.
“We have also noted the hues and cries of the opposition regarding
the issue of PVCs and Card readers for the elections but Nigerians are
not short in their memory to recall that it is not the PDP but APC that
had issues with security agencies over attempts to hack into INEC’s data
base and to clone the PVCs.
It is also not the PDP but the APC that has complicities with some
compromised INEC officials on biased distribution of PVCs in select
states especially, Lagos and other APC states.” the PDP said.
The ruling party also debunked allegations of plans to use security
agencies to intimidate or implicate opposition leaders describing such
as “part of APC’s worn out antics of attempting to use nuisance alarm to
heat up the system having failed to articulate credible manifesto to
secure genuine followership among Nigerians.”
“Nigerians are aware that this is not the first time the opposition
would be raising such alarms just for Nigerians to find out that they
are lies. We have here a group of people who are being haunted by
failure and self inflicted woes. APC has all along been deluding itself
as a government in waiting with some phantom popular image it created
for itself in the social media. Now that reality has dawn it in the
face, it has resorted to deploying all manners of antics in a failed
attempt to win the sympathy of Nigerians”, it said.
Restating its readiness for the March 28 and April 11 elections, the
ruling party said “APC’s resort to wild allegations and baseless
utterances are aimed at causing confusion, a clear indication that the
opposition is indeed scared of the elections, having been exposed in
their deceit, empty promises and apparent lack of capacity to lead the
nation.”
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