The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of paying N5000 each to those who took part in Saturday’s ‘one million March4Buhari’ in Lagos.
This allegation was made by the PDP via a press statement issued by its spokesman, Taofik Gani.
The opposition party in Lagos State said APC lied about the walk, which was held on Saturday morning, because the Teslim Balogun Stadium, where the walk ended, only accommodates 24,000 people.
PDP said the APC hiked the figure “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 statement said.
PDP also alleged that posters and billboards of its candidates were vandalised during the rally, while two people in private vehicles were attacked for carrying the sticker of the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Jimi Agbaje.
The statement pointed out 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,” the party said in the statement.
“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,” it said.
