Dollar for defection: APC raising a false alarm, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday dismissed as a false alarm, the statement by the All Progressives Congress that federal lawmakers were being induced with millions of dollars to defect to the ruling party.


The PDP, which described the allegation as false, which he called a sinking party, asked Nigerians to ignore the statement.

The PDP ‘s reaction was contained in a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.

The APC, had, in a statement a statement on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, accused the PDP of using public funds to lure back some of the federal lawmakers, who had defected from the ruling party to the APC.

Mohammed alleged that , in an unprecedented show of desperation, the PDP had rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package that promises $2m to each Senator, who returns to the PDP; $1m to each member of the House of Representatives, and $10m to each ‘leader’, who abandons the APC for the PDP.

It said the price tag for the federal legislators from Rivers State was even higher, which he put at $5m each.

Metuh however said all well-meaning Nigerians were indeed worried by the statements and actions of the APC, which, he said were clearly aimed at destroying Nigeria’s democracy and plunging the nation into chaos.

He said in alleging that lawmakers were being financially induced, the APC seeks to cast doubt in the minds of Nigerians regarding the integrity of duly elected persons, politicians and the entire democratic institution.

He said, “Though this is a preposterous and cheap thesis by the APC to excuse and explain away the collapsing fickle fraud upon which its membership is built, it is nonetheless a vicious attack on the citadel of democracy and we call on the leadership and members of the National Assembly not to view the allegation as mere political statement.

“We urge the National Assembly to insist that the APC withdraws the allegation and apologize to the legislature and the entire nation.

“The truth is that the APC has reached its peak. Diminishing returns has set in and the party can only go down further.

“It is a clear sign that it has exhausted all its strategies and now seeks to cover its premature boast of majority in the National Assembly.”