The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) “abandoned’’ its much hyped membership drive because Nigerians did not show any interest in the exercise following the alleged failure of the party and President Muhammadu Buhari.
The opposition party said the APC had become defunct and could no longer engage in legitimate political activities, given the collapse of its structures across the federation.
The emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC held at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday dissolved the ward, local government, state and zonal executives of the party and ordered for caretaker committees.
The party also announced the shift in date of its new membership registration and revalidation exercise earlier slated to commence this Saturday, to January, 2021.
But the PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan noted, “By abandoning the membership drive, the Governor Bala Mai Buni-led illegal APC national caretaker committee has come to its wits end, having realised that Nigerians, and even their members, do not have confidence in his committee or the fizzling party.’’
But reacting, the APC deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena said, “The PDP leadership has gone senile. Our democracy is in desperate need of opposition.’’
