{"id":33409,"date":"2020-12-12T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33409"},"modified":"2020-12-12T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:49:09","slug":"pdp-mocks-apc-over-botched-membership-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-mocks-apc-over-botched-membership-drive","title":{"rendered":"PDP mocks APC over botched membership drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of abandoning its much hyped membership drive because Nigerians did not show any interest in the exercise following the manifest failure of the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued on Friday and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the PDP further added that the APC suspended its planned membership registration exercise because even its members were now ashamed to be associated with the failure and deceit which the APC brand now represents.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP further stated that the APC has already gone down in history as a jinxed party that is synonymous to failure, deceit, falsehood, lies, lawlessness, treasury looting, poverty and hardship among others.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by the PDP reads thus in part; \u201cThe APC abandoned its much hyped membership drive because Nigerians did not show any interest in the exercise following the manifest failure of the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: 2023: No decision on zoning yet \u2013 PDP<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is reinforced by the fact that the APC has become defunct and can no longer engage in legitimate political activities given the collapse of its structures across the federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC has already gone down in history as a jinxed party that is synonymous to failure, deceit, falsehood, lies, lawlessness, treasury looting, poverty and hardship, sympathy for terrorists and bandits, mortgaging of our national sovereignty, among other vices, which makes it impossible for any well-meaning Nigerian to seek to identify with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven their impunity and arrogance, nobody wants to join the APC which has become a derelict pirate ship, stranded and doomed in rough waters and only waiting for its final descent into political abyss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement by the PDP added, \u201cBy abandoning the membership drive, the Governor Bala Mai Buni-led illegal APC national caretaker committee has come to its wits end, having realized that Nigerians, and even their members do not have confidence in his committee or the fizzling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready, the few well-meaning Nigerians in the APC have become weary of identifying with a failed party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the APC awaits its final descent, Nigerians expect President Buhari to commence steps to recover the over N14 trillion stolen by APC leaders, including the N9.6 trillion detailed in the leaked NNPC memo, the over N3 trillion oil revenue scam among others,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of abandoning its much hyped membership drive because Nigerians did not show any interest in the exercise following the manifest failure of the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday and signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,34,254,65],"class_list":["post-33409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP mocks APC over botched membership drive - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-mocks-apc-over-botched-membership-drive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP mocks APC over botched membership drive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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