‘These individuals are not our candidates’ – ADC rejects APC defection assert

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has rejected claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that some of its candidates from Jigawa, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara states have defected to the ruling party.

“The APC cannot assemble random individuals at its secretariat, consult imaginary ADC credentials on them and then status their defection,” Abdullahi said.

The opposition party maintained that political claims should be supported by verifiable records.

The ADC described the individuals newly presented by the APC as alleged defectors as individuals who do not hold any recognised opinion in the opposition party.

The party too criticised the method in which the APC announced the alleged defections, saying the ruling party could acquire anyone at its secretariat but should not display such individuals to Nigerians as ADC candidates minus evidence.

“These persons are not our candidates,” the party said.

“The APC should tell Nigerians which ADC positions these individuals held, the constituencies they represented and when they occupied those positions,” the ADC challenged.

“Nigerians are asking for evidence of preferable lives; the APC is manufacturing photographs and congratulating itself,” the ADC said.

It questioned the assert against the backdrop of rising food prices, insecurity and increasing pressure on household incomes.

The ADC greater dismissed the APC’s explanation that the alleged defectors were attracted by what it described as the administration’s transformation of Northern Nigeria.

In a declaration by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said the APC had wrongly attached the party’s name and identities to humans who were neither its candidates nor leaders.

The party said Nigerians were extra interested in seeing concrete improvements in their living conditions than political events and photographs of alleged defectors.

It insisted that the APC should send evidence to display that the persons it presented were actually ADC candidates or officials prior to claiming they had defected.

‘These individuals are not our candidates’ – ADC rejects APC defection state

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