APC Convention
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the nationwide conference of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a charade, a mockery of democracy and assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, mentioned in a assertion in Abuja on Saturday, that delegates and different members of the APC had been horrified when aspirants to numerous party workplaces “were being threatened, harassed and in some cases, paid and handed written orders to mount the stage and announce their withdrawal for aspirants listed by President Muhammadu Buhari, under heavy security presence.”
It alleged that the open intimidation and bodily assault on aspirants and delegates to the conference additional confirmed the alleged desperation by President Muhammadu Buhari’s camp to grab the APC’s presidential ticket.
The party mentioned this made the camp to have resorted to imposing officers who it additional alleged, had been handed the directives to muzzle different presidential aspirants within the APC forward of the party’s presidential major.
He added, “Nigerians are invited to notice that among the officers most popular, notably, the National Chairman, are people overburdened by heavy corruption allegations, and whose anticipated investigation and prosecution have been traded for a Presidential ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari.
“It is instructive to state that the APC conference straight displays the confusion, intimidations, violations and descent to fascism, which have characterised governance in our nation within the final three years.
“President Muhammadu Buhari’s handlers are aware that due to his poor performance, clinching his party’s presidential ticket under a free, fair and credible primary is impossible, hence this resort to intimidation, coercion and escalation of official hooliganism in the APC.”