APC can’t get Obasanjo’s support — PDP‏

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The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party has described the visit of the
leadership of the All Progressives Congress to
past heads of state and PDP leaders as laughable,
saying the trips were only meant to give the
opposition merger false confidence ahead of the
2015 election.
It said despite APC’s visits, it would not secure
the support of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, and other past heads of state,
especially those who are members of the PDP.
In an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, the
Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Mr. Taofik
Gani, said APC leaders had embarked on the trips
to visit some prominent Nigerians, mainly to
embarrass PDP and excite themselves.
He said, “It has become really comical. It has
become known that they are taking the Nigerian
polity for granted. The APC’s visit to past heads
of state and PDP leaders were mere attempts at
embarrassing PDP.
“There is no way APC can get (former President
Olusegun) Obasanjo to be part of them.
Interestingly, Obasanjo told them ‘I can never be
part of you.’ They just want to excite themselves
and give themselves pseudo-confidence.”
Gani added that APC had become aggressive in
its recruitment of politicians, because it realised
that it was losing the confidence of the people.
He noted that as a result of that, APC has made
no attempt to scrutinise the people joining its
fold.
The Lagos PDP spokesman also faulted the report
that about 1000 of its members defected to APC,
saying it was mere propaganda. He, however,
admitted that one person defected.
He said, “That story is just hype. The fact is that
the man that reportedly defected was never a
card-carrying member of PDP. He wanted to
contest the local government election. He didn’t
get the kind of support he wanted from the PDP
leaders in the Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council
Development Area. He came to us and we felt
that such a person should be allowed considering
the fact that we didn’t prepare for election in 57
local councils; and we needed people to
participate, so we gave it to him. It is not a
surprise that he decamped.
“What is surprising is that they said 1000 people
decamped with him. That is a lie. They should
show us the video. I see it as propaganda. It was
only one person that decamped, but they are
now claiming he decamped with over 1000
supporters; that is a bogus lie. It is very
insignificant as far as our fortune in Ikosi-Ejirin is
concerned and Epe local government.”
He added that PDP was not relying on politicians
to win Lagos in 2015, but on the “already-
disenchanted masses of Lagos State, who would
stand at the polling booths and vote out APC.”
He said some people had been quietly joining
PDP from APC but they have decided to keep
quiet about it.