By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja
The African Democratic Congress has dismissed the All Progressives Congress’ (APC’s) claim that it received ADC House of Assembly candidates from Jigawa, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara States as wishful thinking and a figment of the APC’s imagination.
In a statement signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC National Publicity Secretary, the party said the individuals being paraded are not ADC candidates, leaders, or candidates.
According to him, “The APC cannot assemble random individuals at its secretariat, confer imaginary ADC credentials on them and then announce their defection.
“While the APC Chairman is welcome to receive visitors, he should stop introducing them to Nigerians as people they are not. These people are not our candidates”, he said.
The party also mocked the claim that the supposed defectors were attracted by the administration’s “remarkable transformation” of Northern Nigeria.
Continuing, the party said, “Having invented ADC credentials for its guests, the APC has supplied an equally imaginative account of its performance over the past few years.
“The APC should explain how these fake photo-ops bring down food prices, protect Nigeria’s communities or help struggling families pay their bills.
“Nigerians are asking for evidence of better lives; the APC is manufacturing photographs and congratulating itself”, it said.
The ADC challenged the APC to substantiate the credentials it had assigned to the fake individuals that it paraded as ADC members.
It added, “The APC should state the ADC offices these individuals supposedly held, the constituencies they represented as our candidates and when they held those positions. “The APC should enjoy its photographs and spare Nigerians this unnecessary fiction”, it stressed.
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