APC paying N10,000 per head to rent crowd at Buhari campaign rallies —PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of renting crowds at its presidential rallies to give a false impression that President Muhammadu Buhari still commands followership.

It said the APC through agents in various parts of the country, rents Nigerians with fees ranging from N5,000 to N10,000 per head.

The Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO), stated this in a statement through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday.

“We know how the Buhari Presidency has sunk low to be paying money to people to attend his rallies; how the Presidency and the APC are recruiting agents in various parts of the country, through whom they conduit renting fees ranging from N5,000 to N10,000 per head, at President Buhari’s rally, which is now the latest racket in town.

“These agents transport the rented crowd, in buses and trailers from neighboring states, to venues of President Buhari’s rallies to give the impression of massive support from the host state. Usually, the same individuals are recycled in rallies especially in a particular geo-political zone,” the PDP said.

The opposition party also lambasted the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for making derogatory comments against PDP’s successful zonal Presidential rally held in Owerri, Imo State, on Tuesday.

According to the party, the emergence of Oshiomhole as APC’s chairman has been helping to make the ruling party lose ground across the country.

It added that it was as the result of alleged damage Oshiomhole caused the party that the APC has resorted to renting crowd to create a false impression that “President Buhari, who has been rejected by Nigerians, still commands followership in our country.”

The PDP also claimed that over 50 per cent of people at any President Buhari’s state rallies are made up of apolitical persons rented from contiguous states.

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“This explains why the crowd at President Buhari’s rallies, which having no affinity with his ambition, is always unruly and do not respond to the APC slogans or wave the APC brooms.

“Already, ahead of President Buhari’s forthcoming rally in Anambra, agents have been fully mobilized to rent and transport crowd from Kogi, Edo and Delta to create an impression that he enjoys massive support in the state,” PDP added.

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