A statement from PDP below...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
counseled the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and its Presidential candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari to focus on real
campaign and try to win followers genuinely
instead of applying cheap diversionary tactics.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa
Metuh in a statement on Monday said “the
APC so called ‘change agenda’ should be
based on issues and not on change of
dressing and religious gathering”.
“This election is not about political window-
dressing and dramatizing. What will count is
record of performance and antecedents, which
President Jonathan stands taller than General Buhari.
“It is therefore not surprising that the APC and
its Presidential candidate will resort to organizing
a kangaroo opinion rating in a failed attempt to
cover up their inadequacies and manipulate public
perception in their favour.
This APC phantom poll has been designed in such a
way to make the Nigerian public believe that 75
percent of the voting population is in support of
General Buhari ahead the February 14
Presidential election.
Our findings reveal that the APC leaders are
already intensifying effort to compromise some
section of the media so as to ensure that the poll
packaged by its foreign consultants is widely publicized.
Part of the strategy is a disguised mobile phone
balloting application being circulated by the APC,
whereby a curious click elicits a thank-you
message from them and automatically register
the unsuspecting phone user as having voted in
support of General Buhari.
We are indeed shocked at the level the APC and
its presidential candidate have sunk in their
desperation for power. We hereby urge Nigerians,
particularly the media to be wary of this plot to
deceive the public and truncate our democratic process.
Our final advice to the APC is that they should
focus on real campaign and stop playing to the
gallery. Lies, no matter how much embellished can
never take the place of truth and nothing built on
falsehood stands. This election is not about fake
figures and falsehood. It is about the choice of
the citizens. Nigerians have since made up their
minds to continue identifying with their
performing President and no amount of
propaganda and misrepresentation by the APC can
change this.
Signed:
Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary
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