This allegation has followed a statement issued on Sunday by the APC interim National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, which announced that the party extended its nationwide membership registration by two days.
"While we are aware that the good people of Nigeria have accepted our party, the APC, as the agent of the much-needed change that our country desperately needs at this time, we have apparently underestimated the number of those who are eager and willing to participate actively in the change process by joining the APC," reads the statement.
The registration would end on Wednesday, February 12, instead of today.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metu had at the weekend said that the opposition party laid claims to a non-existent membership population. He described the targeted 28 million membership by the APC as phantom.
However, APC said it was also not unaware of the efforts by the ruling party to sabotage the registration process in Abia, Delta, Gombe and Rivers, among other states.
No plans to rig general elections
In another reaction, a member of APC in the National Assembly from Ekiti State Senator Olubunmi Adetumbi has denied the statement by PDP that his party was going to rig the 2015 elections through the ongoing membership registration.
He said this at his home in Ifaki Ekiti Area of Ekiti State after registering at his unit.
According to Adetumbi, the conduct of the membership registration exercise in all the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC's) designated units is in consonance with constitutional structure of his party.
The lawmaker also said that the exercise had recorded a huge success since its commencement and urged those who have not participated to do so.
To recall, the APC has begun a nationwide registration of members on Wednesday, February 5.
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