Facts emerged on Friday that the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) is behind the desire to register the
controversial “African Peoples Congress,” as the “new party" mistakenly
issued a statement in Abuja today using the email address of the ruling
party.
Already, one Mr. Thomas Ibu, the PDP official in charge of the PDP
Internet is being queried for the "national embarrassment" the
mismanaged ruse has caused the party.The statement was sent to reporters officially accredited to cover the PDP. It was copied to almost all the officials of the party, including its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, as well as party officials who work with Metuh in the Publicity Department, such as Keneth Gyado and Nwachukwu Ngige.
Metuh and those working with him in his department are said to be the brains behind the new “party.”
The bogus APC was hurriedly put together to thwart the efforts of the opposition, who have come together under the All Progressive Congress, from being registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
A member of the party's National Working Committee said the Presidency, which is laboring under heavy national and international lampooning following the pardon granted convicted former governor Dipreye Alamieyesegha, was fuming with anger over the new embarrassment.
"This is an operation we ought to carry out cleanly, without letting the world know that we are ones behind the new party. But the bubble has burst now with this silly mistake. Too bad," the NWC member said.
In the email titled, "EMERGENCY PRESS RELEASE", the PDP appendix APC raised the alarm that its members were being “threatened
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