The ruling Peoples Democratic Party has taken its rivalry with the growing popularity of leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress a step further.
National spokesperson of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh has described the ongoing membership registration drive of the APC as a ruse and said the party would register 28 million members arbitrarily.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, Metuh 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.”
“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.”
“ 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.”