The Peoples Democratic Party has counselled the All Progressives Congress and its Presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to focus on real campaign and try to win followers genuinely. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Monday said the APC “change agenda” should be based on issues and not on change of dressing and religious gathering. “This election is not about political window-dressing and dramatising. What will count is record of performance and antecedents. “It is therefore not surprising that the APC and its Presidential candidate will resort to organising a kangaroo opinion rating in a failed attempt to cover up their inadequacies and manipulate public perception in their favour.” He said the APC poll had been designed in such a way to make the Nigerian public believed that 75 per cent of the voting population were in support of Buhari ahead the February 14 Presidential election. Metuh alleged that part of the strategy was a disguised mobile phone balloting application being circulated by the APC, whereby a curious click elicits a thank-you message from them and automatically register the unsuspecting phone user as having voted in support of Buhari. He urged Nigerians to be wary of this plot to deceive the public and truncate our democratic process. When contacted, the National publicity Secretray of the APC, Alhaji Lai Muhhamed, said he was in a meeting and that he would react after the meeting. But as of the time of filing this report, (8.40pm) he had not. Copyright PUNCH. All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH. Contact: editor@punchng posted on January 06, 2015 at 12:11AM jtnng.blogspot/
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