by Kolapo Olapoju

Unsurprisingly, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is unimpressed with the one-million-man march of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to the Lagos State chapter of the PDP, every person that attended the march received at least N5,000 each.

In a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, the party alleged that groups which attended the march received between N1m and N10m.

The PDP also accused the APC of being deceptive with its figure, saying that the Teslim Balogun Stadium where the walk ended, could only accommodate 24,000 people.

There were several other complaints issued by the PDP- read below 5 of them:

 

1. “The capacity of the stadium used is 24,325 and could not have accommodated over 100,000 without stampede. The PDP posits that the realistic figure of about 11,000 APC members actually participated due to coercion or monetary inducement.”

 

2. “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.”

 

3. “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.”

 

4. “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.”

 

5. “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.”