By Akombo Aondona Abuja
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has alleged that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State was behind the creation of a fake APC Youth Vanguard, which the PDP had allegedly been using to spread hate and deception against APC and its Governorship Candidate in Bauchi, former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Abubakar Sadique.
The APC made the allegation on Wednesday, 17 August a statement by its the National Publicity Secretary, Barr Felix Morka, said the group has no affiliation whatsoever with the APC
Morka accused one Mohammed Usman Dikko of being the brain behind the mischievous group, which he said had been making bogus and unsubstantial allegations against the APC in Bauchi with a view to demarketing the party and Sadique towards the 2023 governorship election in the state.
Morka wrote: “Ahead of the 2023 Governorship Election in Bauchi State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set its hirelings on the prowl masquerading as an APC support group, spreading hate and deception against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Governorship standard bearer in the state.
“Under the thin and false cover of ‘APC Youth Vanguard’, these elements have launched calumnious attacks, including a spurious petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique (rtd.), Governorship Candidate of the APC in Bauchi State, and his wife, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar.
“A petition authored by one Mohammed Usman Dikko on behalf of ‘APC Youth Vanguard’ makes bogus and unsubstantiated allegation of a plot by our candidate to engage in acts of electoral impropriety.
“To be clear, the purported ‘APC group’ is a phoney, unknown entity bearing no affiliation, whatsoever, with our party or its registered support groups.
“While the PDP has every reason to be anxious and jittery about its rather bleak prospects ahead of the Bauchi State governorship election given its government’s dismal performance, resorting to guile and subterfuge is beyond the pale.
“The good people of Bauchi State will not be taken in by PDP’s lies and deception howsoever packaged or delivered.”
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