News: DEFECTION: PDP Uses Public Funds To Lure Our Members - APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of luring opposition legislators with amounts ranging from $1m to $10m to join the ruling party.

The opposition party made this claim in a statement signed by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The APC accused the ruling party of using public funds to lure back some of the federal lawmakers who have defected to the APC and described the act as "a political horse trading carried too far."

Mohammed said,

"The PDP, in an unprecedented show of desperation, has rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package that promises $2m to each senator who returns to the PDP; $1m to each member of the House of Representatives and $10m to each 'leader' who abandons the APC for PDP."

However, the opposition party believes that no amount of inducements can stop the change that was in the horizon, because Nigerians are ready to vote out the PDP in 2015.

The party noted that the five House of Representatives members who had allegedly taken the PDP's killer bait and returned to the party were doing themselves a disservice.

Meanwhile PDP leadership was engaged in a marathon meeting when the APC statement was issued. None of the party leaders was available for comments.