The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says every
person that attended the one-million-man march of the All Progressives
Congress in Lagos received at least N5,000 each.
The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani,
said groups that attended the march received between N1m and N10m.
The PDP said the APC was deceiving Lagosians by tagging the march as
“one-million-march” because the Teslim Balogun Stadium where the walk
ended, could only accommodate 24,000 people.
The PDP said during the rally, posters and billboards of its
candidates were vandalised while two people in private vehicles were
attacked for carrying the sticker of the PDP governorship candidate, Mr.
Jimi Agbaje.
The statement read, “The PDP has described as blatant falsehood and
over exaggeration of the number of attendees which the APC continues to
put at one Million probably to give General Muhammadu Buhari false hope
in Lagos State.
“The capacity of the stadium used is 24,325 and could not have
accommodated over 100,000 without stampede! The Party notes that the APC
was over ambitious to expect one million lovers of the APC in Lagos
State at this period that the masses are disenchanted with its policies;
a reason why Governor Babatunde Fashola could not attend the rally.
“The PDP posits that the realistic figure of about 11,000 APC members
actually participated due to coercion or monetary inducement.
“The PDP further wants the security agencies to investigate the
anomalies observed at the rally which include: Assault of persons;
destruction of PDP campaign materials; use of abusive, threat,
provocative speeches and songs.
“We condemn the actions of some overzealous members of the APC who
participated in the Buhari/Osibajo rally but actually deployed to
unleash on the banners and other campaign materials of PDP on the rally
routes.
“Lagosians in two private cars and a commercial bus were harassed and
the vehicles maliciously damaged because they had the stickers of the
PDP and Agbaje. We blame the APC for not curtailing the excesses of such
members in order to prevent such assaults.
“The number of persons at the rally can at best be near 11,000. This
is in spite our intelligence report that individual participants were
mobilised with N5,000 while the groups got between N1m and N10M each.”
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