The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party
says every person that attended the one-million-man
march of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos received
at least N5,000 each.
The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr.
Taofik Gani, said groups that attended the march
received between N1m and N10m.
The PDP said the APC was deceiving Lagosians by
tagging the march as "one-million-march" because the
Teslim Balogun Stadium where the walk ended, could
only accommodate 24,000 people.
The PDP said during the rally, posters and billboards of
its candidates were vandalised while two people in
private vehicles were attacked for carrying the sticker
of the PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje.
The statement read, "The PDP has described as blatant
falsehood and over exaggeration of the number of
attendees which the APC continues to put at one Million
probably to give General Muhammadu Buhari false
hope in Lagos State.
"The capacity of the stadium used is 24,325 and could
not have accommodated over 100,000 without stampede!
The Party notes that the APC was over ambitious to
expect one million lovers of the APC in Lagos State at
this period that the masses are disenchanted with its
policies; a reason why Governor Babatunde Fashola
could not attend the rally.
"The PDP posits that the realistic figure of about 11,000
APC members actually participated due to coercion or
monetary inducement.
"The PDP further wants the security agencies to
investigate the anomalies observed at the rally which
include: Assault of persons; destruction of PDP campaign
materials; use of abusive, threat, provocative speeches
and songs.
"We condemn the actions of some overzealous members
of the APC who participated in the Buhari/Osinbajo
rally but actually deployed to unleash on the banners
and other campaign materials of PDP on the rally
routes.
"Lagosians in two private cars and a commercial bus
were harassed and the vehicles maliciously damaged
because they had the stickers of the PDP and Agbaje.
We blame the APC for not curtailing the excesses of
such members in order to prevent such assaults.
"The number of persons at the rally can at best be near
11,000. This is in spite our intelligence report that
individual participants were mobilised with N5,000
while the groups got between N1m and N10M each."
Source: PunchNg |
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