The APC stated the level of paranoia of the PDP and the Jonathan administration was so high, even before the General's presentation that they allegedly went to hire some persons to protest at the Chatham House over an issue they knew nothing about. In a statement issued in London on Friday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party stated even when it was so apparent that the PDP and the Jonathan administration were so stunned and stung by Gen. Buhari's well-accepted presentation, they could have saved themselves from further disgrace by simply keeping quiet, instead of exposing their iities. "For the spokesmen of the PDP and the Jonathan Campaign organizations to have rushed to the press to denounce what was a patriotic presentation by a high-regarded Nigerian is not only absurd but a new low, even for those who have lost every sense of propriety in their public actions and pronouncements," it stated. The party stated it was just as well that the rent-a-crowd show boomeranged on the PDP/Jonathan administration, when those among the scanty protesters who were interviewed stated they did not even know why they have come there, with some of them hiding behind their placards. "The fact that the Jonathan administration wasted public funds in hiring people to protest against Gen. Buhari's appearance is another indication of how the commonwealth has been consistently frittered away under the clueless and incompetent Jonathan administration," it said, wondering who appropriated the funds that were wasted on the uninformed and disinterested band of protesters. APC also described it as the worst case of double standard for the spokespersons of the PDP and the Jonathan administration to question the basis for Gen. Buhari's appearance at the Chatham House, when the same platform was used a few weeks back by the administration, which sent National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki there to push for the postponement of the 2015 general elections. APC hailed Gen. Buhari for his well-crafted, well-delivered and patriotic presentation, and his deft handling of the subsequent question-and-answer session at such a big-league platform as the Chatham House, saying despite the barrage of personal attacks and death wishes by the PDP and its agents, the General's stock has continued to rise both within and outside Nigeria.
