APC's registration to produce 28m fake members -PDP

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."