The All
Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of
sabotaging its on-going membership registration exercise in Abia, Delta, Gombe
and Rivers States.
This is just
as the party has announced plans to extend its nationwide membership
registration by two days to accommodate the millions of Nigerians who have
turned out to register, but have not done so.
In a
statement issued Sunday by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said the registration would now end on Wednesday, February
12, instead of today.
PDP’s
National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metu, had at the weekend accused the
APC of laying claims to a non-existent membership population, describing the
targeted 28 million membership by the opposition party as phantom.
However,
APC, in the press statement, said it was also not unaware of the efforts by the
PDP to sabotage the registration process in Abia, Delta, Gombe and Rivers,
among other states, hence the need to ensure that the people of the affected
states are not disenfranchised.
The party
urged all interested citizens who were yet to register to utilise the
opportunity offered by the extension to do so.
“While we
are aware that the good people of Nigeria have accepted our party, the APC, as
the agent of the much-needed change that our country desperately needs at this
time, we have apparently underestimated the number of those who are eager and
willing to participate actively in the change process by joining the APC.
“Even with
one day to go in the original registration schedule, we have exceeded the
number of members we set out to register, and many more have reached out to us
to give them the opportunity to join the APC train of change, hence our
decision to extend the registration,” it said
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