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Taiwo Kuye

The Financial Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Mr. Taiwo Kuye, tells BAYO AKINLOYE that the allegation that the party rented a crowd to protest against the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is not true

Did the Peoples Democratic Party rent a crowd to protest against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Chatham House in London?

How could the largest party in Africa rent a crowd to protest a personality like Muhammadu Buhari? Who doesnt know him as a former despot? Buhari is well known in London as someone who once truncated a democratic process in Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party did not need to rent a crowd to protest against the opposition partys presidential candidate. People all over the world know about the transformational leadership of the PDP presidential candidate, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. His works speak for him. The protesters against Buhari know a pretender had come into their midst.

But a journalist and London resident, Rose Graham, alleged that the crowd protesting against the APC was likely paid to do so?

The people protesting against Buhari were London residents. They knew very well what they were doing. Our party, the PDP, does not pay people to attend rally or pay people to protest against our opponents. We are not like the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, that will take a crowd from Osun to Sokoto; that will rent a crowd in Lagos and take to Ekiti. We dont rent crowds. That is what the APC does all the time; they want to tell the people that they have a large following. Its a lie and lying has always been their propaganda. PDP doesnt do that. We are a strong party with a strong base nationwide. Our presence is felt anywhere and everywhere. We are a stable party the most stable party in the country. Look at the so-called leading opposition party, how stable is it?

What about Grahams claim that the PDP was trying to buy her over to campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan?

Who will offer her money to campaign for the President? She is obviously a Buhari and APC apologist. What she said was not true. Everyone knows what havoc Buhari wreaked on this country as a dictatorial former head of state. The PDP did not need to offer anyone money to protest against someone who overthrew a democratically elected government. In the APC, there are plenty of scavengers who are moving from London to America to the Emirates looking for banks to grant them loan to execute their presidential election ambition. They left the shore of Nigeria seeking for money to expend during the election. Even their candidate, I learnt, had to be flown to London and California for medical attention. These are scavengers moving around the globe theyre unsteady. All they do is lie against the PDP and the President.

Are you saying that your party doesnt hire crowd for its rallies or sponsor a crowd to protest against its opponents?

Every crowd you see at a PDP gathering is never a hired throng. The people who come out to participate in our rallies are those who are in love with the ruling party. In all of our gatherings these ones come out not because of the handouts they will get but because of their genuine love for the PDP. They know and understand that the PDP is a performer. People troop out in their thousands to attend our programmes. We dont hire crowds. All the people who support us are our bona fide members. It is never the practice of the PDP to hire a crowd. For what? Any crowd you see are people who are committed to the ideals of the party. This is not APC. Renting crowds is what they do the best. They can ferry people from Lagos to Sokoto to campaign. In the Lagos State governorship race, Jimi Agbaje is a governor-in-waiting. Theres no chance this time around for the APC to win the governorship election in Lagos. If an independent opinion poll is conducted today, you will find out that the PDP is fully on ground in all the 20 Local Government Areas. And if you look at the forthcoming presidential election, its going to be a walk-over for Mr. President. I have that conviction.

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National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress has described as callous, morbid and insensitive, the comments made by President Goodluck Jonathan that the Chibok girls are still alive and that the Boko Haram sect would have displayed their bodies if they had been killed.

In a statement issued in Lagos by the National Publicity Secretary, APC, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday, the party said it found the comment deeply offensive to human sensibilities rather than providing hope and succour for the traumatised parents of the girls.

The opposition party pointed out that a key role of a president in times of tribulations and tragedies is, to offer hope and be the Consoler-in-Chief, not to make statements that will deepen the suffering and sorrow of victims.

APC said Jonathan should have spoken on the basis of actionable intelligence, not some twisted, melancholic and offensive logic. The party said the statement confirmed the fears of parents of the girls and Nigerians concerning the fate of the girls, who had now been held in captivity for over 300 days, without the government rescuing them.

APC stated that all the parents of the girls as well as all concerned people around the world wanted to know was what the Jonathan-led administration was doing to bring the girls home safely and as soon as possible.

The party urged Jonathan to borrow a leaf from his Chadian counterpart, who came across as being very presidential in his comments on Shekau by saying, It is in Abubakar Shekaus interest to surrender; we know where he is. If he refuses to give himself up, he will suffer the same fate as his comrades.

APC said the Chadian Presidents statement also contradicted the earlier claim by the Nigerian authorities that Shekau had been killed at least twice, the last of which was backed up with a pictorial evidence.

The statement added, The Shekau that President Deby was referring to is the same Shekau that the Jonathan-led administration claimed to have killed at least twice, and the same Shekau the same administration is now seeking to capture alive.

Responding to Lai Mohammeds statement on the Chibok girls, Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode said, Whilst the majority of Nigerians are overjoyed by the fact that the President has given us hope by saying that the girls are still alive. Mohammed and the APC are not happy.

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Former Head of State, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari

The Presidency has accused the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari of avoiding a debate with his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Presidency alleged that Buhari and his campaign organisation had rebuffed all efforts to get him to debate with President Jonathan.

The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, made the allegation in a piece sent to SUNDAY PUNCH entitled We challenge Buhari to a debate,

Abati said, The man to blame for this denial is General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. Getting him to debate the incumbent, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has been an uphill task.

To say that the man is scared, practically running away from an opportunity to debate his ideas against the incumbents, is to be charitable. He doesnt want it. Every effort to get him to the podium has been rebuffed by him and his handlers.

He said while Jonathan accepted invitations to two presidential debates before the elections were rescheduled, Buhari was not interested in any of them.

The presidential spokesperson noted that every Nigerian would love to see the PDP and APC presidential candidates in a debate, being the main contenders in the election. According to him, that would be good for our democracy.

Abati recalled that the first group that approached Jonathan was represented by John Momoh of Channels TV; Emeka Izeze of The Guardian, and Nduka Obaigbena of ThisDay, Arise TV and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria.

He said while the Presidency agreed to any Sunday, Buhari allegedly rejected a Sunday because he does not work on Sundays.

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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress seeking to represent Obokun Constituency at the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye, has blamed the alleged destruction of his campaign billboards on those he called the agents of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Oyintiloye, who said this in a statement issued on Friday blamed the Osun East senatorial candidate of the PDP, Mr. Francis Fadahunsi, for the destruction.

He said, Thugs loyal to the PDP Senatorial Candidate in Osun East , Mr. Francis Fadahunsi, came to Ibokun Friday night and destroyed the billboard stationed along Ibokun axis of Ibokun-Osogbo road.

An eye witness said the gangsters, led by one of the leading thugs of the gang, identified as Blessing, came in two cars with colour red and blue respectively to destroy the billboard.

The destroyed billboard had Oyintiloyes picture and the pictures of the APC Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates, Muhammadu Buhari, Babajide Omoworare and Nathaniel Agunbiade.

Oyintiloye advised the PDP and its candidates to conduct their campaign in obedience to the peace accord signed in Abuja by political leaders.

However, Fadahunsi while reacting to the allegation through the spokesman of his campaign organisation, Mr. Sola Olowoye, debunked the allegations while describing Oyintiloye as a serial lair.

The PDP candidates spokesman said that Oyintiloye was an inconsequential candidate whose participation in the election was of no effect to Fadahunsis aspiration.

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East Side Progressives
Second 2015 post primary Mayoral debate.

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