The National Leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has said the election bid for the presidency has resorted to comical conspiracies.
The APC was reacting to allegations by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, that APC planted some presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to disrupt the chances of the party in the 2019 polls.
Wike, in an exclusive interview with Premium Times, stated that some of the presidential aspirants in the PDP are working for the APC.
Governor Wike said that the PDP made the mistakes of falling for the antics of the former governor of Borno state, Alimodu Sherrif, who was planted by the ruling APC, adding that such will never happen again.
However, APC through its national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena in a statement on Sunday, described the allegation as laughable.
The party also challenged Wike to name the APC-sponsored aspirants among PDP’s crowd that have signified interest to run for the presidency
The statement read “In reacting to the allegations by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has sponsored some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential aspirants, it is understandable that the PDP in its despair over its failed 2019
“Election bid for the presidency has resorted to comical conspiracies.
“Instead of putting its house in order, it is laughable that Governor Wike and his PDP cohorts are clutching on straws in its desperate bid to remain in public reckoning in the face of imminent 2019 defeat.
“Meanwhile, we challenge Governor Wike to be brave enough and name the APC-sponsored aspirants among the crowd that have signified interest to run for the presidency under the PDP.
“We urge the PDP to quickly wake up to the reality that the 2019 presidential elections have been won and lost. The PDP is a dead party and we urge its members who share our progressive ideal to leave the sinking and rudderless ship and come over to the APC which is rebuilding and repositioning the country in all facets”
