According
to a statement by the PDP public secretary Taofik Gani, he said attending
groups have received between N1m and N10m.
Read
the statement below
“The
PDP has described
as blatant falsehood and over exaggeration of the number of
attendees which the APC continues to put at one Million probably to give
General Muhammadu Buhari false hope in Lagos State,” the statement read.
“The
capacity of the stadium used is 24,325 and could not have accommodated over
100,000 without stampede! The Party notes that the APC was over ambitious to
expect one million lovers of the APC in Lagos State at this period that the
masses are disenchanted with its policies; a reason why Governor Babatunde
Fashola could not attend the rally.
“The
PDP posits that the realistic figure of about 11,000 APC members actually
participated due to coercion or monetary inducement.
“The
PDP further wants the security agencies to investigate the anomalies observed
at the rally which include: Assault of persons; destruction of PDP campaign
materials; use of abusive, threat, provocative speeches and songs.
“We condemn the actions of some
overzealous members of the APC who participated in the Buhari/Osibajo rally but
actually deployed to unleash on the banners and other campaign materials of PDP
on the rally routes.
“Lagosians in two private cars and a
commercial bus were harassed and the vehicles maliciously damaged because they
had the stickers of the PDP and Agbaje. We blame the APC for not curtailing the
excesses of such members in order to prevent such assaults.
“The number of persons at the rally can
at best be near 11,000. This is in spite our intelligence report that individual
participants were mobilised with N5,000 while the groups got between N1m and
N10M each.”
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