PDP Describes APC as "Den of Looters", Denies Campaign Funding Rift

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as "laughable, infantile and diversionary", reports allegedly being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that there are disagreements in the PDP over the handling of presidential campaign funds.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday, the party said "for the APC and agents of the Buhari Campaign Organisation to descend to the level of fabricating stories to create a non-existent scenario shows that the ruling party and the Buhari Presidency have finally come to their wits end and are now suffering a pre-defeat trauma".

The statement reads in part: "PDP is aware that the Buhari Presidency and the APC have become so frustrated over their dwindled electoral fortune in the face of the soaring popularity of the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that they are now attempting to inject crisis into the PDP campaign in order to divert public attention from their own failures and rejection".

The PDP averred that "the Atiku Abubakar campaign is owned and driven by the Nigerian public and will never have the kind of rift that have been ravaging the APC campaign, where their leaders, including their National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, went on the run from security agencies over allegations of siphoning funds from aspirants and candidates.

Unlike the Buhari Campaign Organization, which is practically a den of looters and sanctuary of persons indicted for corruption, which has been running its campaigns with looted funds, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization has been running a transparent and people-driven campaign, anchored on the volunteered support of overwhelming majority of Nigerians".

The PDP counseled President Buhari and the APC to note that their resort to smear campaign will not help their cause, as Nigerians would never be distracted from their collective resolve to vote in Atiku Abubakar as the next President, following his proven capacity and will to return Nigeria to the path of national cohesion and economic prosperity.