The Director of Media and Publicity of All Progressive Congress (APC) Campaign Council in Kogi (KOSACC), Mr Kingsley Fanwo, disclosed this when he briefed newsmen on Monday in Lokoja.
Fanwo, in his speech tagged, ”The Many Lies of PDP and its Traditional Illusions in Kogi State”, said the PDP was dismayed by the poor turnout at the rally.
”We know that the PDP brought a lot of people from seven neighbouring states for the campaign rally in Kogi.
”Talking about 148,000 defectors at Kogi rally by PDP is too ridiculous and not true,” Fanwo said.
Fanwo said the opposition party resorted to rolling out expired individuals who had been expunged from the ranks of the APC for their unsavory deeds and characters as defectors and proceeded to canonise them.
”The rally turned into a farce when people like the former deputy Governor of the state, Elder Simeon Achuba and the former speaker of the state assembly, Rt Hon. Alfa Imam, were repackaged for Atiku as Kogi APC stalwarts who were decamping to the PDP at the rally.
”What Atiku and his entourage might not have known is that this is the same Achuba who was impeached from office by the state assembly for gross misconduct during the first term of the administration.
”Also, Rt Hon. Alfa Imam is another has-been, who has a running battle with his colleagues when he was Speaker of the State House of Assembly. At the cusp of being impeached, he pleaded to be allowed to resign, ” he said
He claimed that the duo were no longer active members of the party and it won the 2019 landslide without them, adding that the PDP campaign rally in Kogi was a shadow of itself.
Fanwo, who is the State’s Commissioner for Information and Communication Strategy, said there was no doubt that the Yahaya Bello-led APC administration had changed the face of Kogi.
”The legacy projects executed, some of which were recently commissioned by Mr President, are too numerous to mention here.”
However, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Head of Media and Publicity, Mr Austin Ochu,m, described the allegations of APC as the noise of a drowning party.
Ochu said, “the insinuation that we hired people from seven states is to ver strange and laughable because we have never for once engaged in such a merchandise.”
“By that press conference, APC is definitely threatened and jittery that the game is over for them as the people spoke last Saturday that they desperately want change. And the time for that change is now.
“Traditionally Kogi is a PDP State, we only faulted along the way but thank God we have gone back to the trenches and ready to make amend and take over the state this time around for the interest and good of our people.
“In fact, that is exactly what APC and are now going out flabbing around not knowing what to do as the difference and message is now very clear that the game is over, ” he said.