The All Progressives Congress has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is offering mouth watering largesse to lawmakers who defect to the party.
In a statement in Lagos by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed said: “The PDP, in an unprecedented show of desperation, has rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package that promises $2 million to each Senator who returns to the PDP; $1 million to each member of the House of Representatives, and $10 million to each ‘leader’ who abandons the APC for PDP”.
The statement alleged that the reward for Rivers lawmakers was even higher at $5 million.
The APC said those who took the “blood money” were just as incapable as the PDP of stopping the change that will sweep Nigeria at the 2015 elections.
‘’Nigerians can now see why their country has gone broke; why the allocation to states from the Federation Account has continued to dwindle, and why infrastructures have either remained decrepit or non-existent.
“It is not difficult to imagine the number of boreholes that 10 million dollars can sink, or how far such a huge amount will go in building cottage hospitals and health clinics.
‘’Things are bound to get worse in the days ahead because the desperate PDP will, more and more, use public funds to try to change the course of history.
“We therefore urge Nigerians to remain resolute in the face of what will be a wave of inducements never before seen in these climes, because there is no going back on the plan to vote out the PDP next year and save Nigeria from a rapacious and inept leadership,’’ APC said.
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