The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Tuesday’s rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti as a “charade and yet another mockery on the party and its rejected governorship candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi.”
PDP said the refusal of Ekiti people to attend the rally, leading to “APC’s resort to renting crowd from neigbouring states, clearly demonstrates their resolve to have nothing to do with the APC.”
A statement by APC’s spoksepserson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “Nigerians watched in amusement as even the rented crowd refused to respond to the APC slogan or brandish their brooms, for which Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state openly nagged them for “sleeping” at the rally.
“In a highly embarrassing effort to spur the rented crowd, Kogi State governor Yayaha Bello, from whose state a substantial part of the crowd was rented, had to recourse to his native Ebira language in addressing the rally.
“Moreover, President Muhammadu Buhari’s attendance worsened the woes of the APC and its candidate, as the President could not boast of any federal project in the state but sought to beguile the people with his usual list of empty promises in his prepared hollow speech.
“This is in addition to empty sloganeering by APC leaders at the rally, particularly, its unelected factional National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, whose attempt at political showboating could not help the situation.
“It is even reprehensible that the poster boys paraded at the rally included governors, like Bello, who is owing salaries in arrears of two years as a result of which many public servants in Kogi State had recourse to suicide.
“Nigerians are, therefore, at a loss as regards what governors who have failed their respective states had to tell the people of Ekiti State where PDP had made life better,” he said.
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