{"id":173442,"date":"2025-08-11T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/deceiving-tinubu-with-crowds-at-apc-rallies"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:52:54","slug":"deceiving-tinubu-with-crowds-at-apc-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/deceiving-tinubu-with-crowds-at-apc-rallies","title":{"rendered":"Deceiving Tinubu with Crowds at APC Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has disclosed that Nigerians are being encouraged to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Dalung said they would send Nigerians to APC rallies to deceive President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Trust TV, Dalung who was a Minister under the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, accused the APC-led government of failing to invest Nigeria\u2019s resources in developing the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe are encouraging so many people to join APC because they have refused to invest the resources of this country in development, so we are sending people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch out during APC rallies, the crowd you will see there will deceive the president to go and be resting in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the Endgovernance protest, we had money and when we realized that the ministers were carrying money and calling yam people to give them N20, 000, we disengaged our followership and encouraged them to go to the houses of ministers to insult man called Solomon Dalung who is wearing red barret and deceiving them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey collected N20,000 and brought it, that was the money we used in buying minerals and food on the day of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraging people to go because it\u2019s our money and have refused to invest it in the development of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has disclosed that Nigerians are being encouraged to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. Dalung said they would send Nigerians to APC rallies to deceive President Bola Tinubu. 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