The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using public funds to lure back some members of the National Assembly who had defected from the ruling party to the APC, describing it as political horse trading carried too far.
In a statement in Lagos by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP, in an unprecedented show of desperation, had rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package to induce its lawmakers that had defected to APC to come back.
According to the party, a returning senator will get $2 million; $1 million for each returning member of the House of Representatives and $10 million to each 'leader' who abandons the APC for PDP.
The party said the offer to federal legislators from Rivers State was even higher at $5 million per lawmaker.
But it explained that the five House members who yesterday defected to the PDP were neither forced to do so nor given any incentive beyond the rare opportunity offered them to be a part of the looming change.
The APC however said there was no cause for alarm, as no amount of inducement would stop the change that is in the horizon, because Nigerians are ready and eager to vote out the PDP next year.
It expressed the hope that the double defectors would declare the blood money they had collected from the PDP to those who voted them into office, and also pretend to be democratic by sharing the money with them.
''Nigerians can now see why their country has gone broke; why the allocation to states from the Federation Account has continued to dwindle, and why infrastructure has either remained decrepit or non-existent. It is not difficult to imagine the number of boreholes that $10 million can sink, or how far such a huge amount will go in building cottage hospitals and health clinics.
''Things are bound to get worse in the days ahead because the desperate PDP will, more and more, use public funds to try to change the course of history. We therefore urge Nigerians to remain resolute in the face of what will be a wave of inducements never before seen in these climes, because there is no going back on the plan to vote out the PDP next year and save Nigeria from a rapacious and inept leadership,'' APC said.
SOURCE: Thisdaylive.com
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