Politics APC Accuses PDP of Offering Dollar Bribe to Lawmakers

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The All Progressives Congress,APC has accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of making 'mouth-watering' offers to senators and members of the House of Representatives.

The PDP is said to be targeting senators and members of the House from Zamfara, Sokoto, Nasarawa and Kaduna states. According to APC's claims, in some instances, the spouses and other relations of some of the lawmakers are being urged to prevail on them to dump the APC.

Speaking on behalf of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party said the PDP was carrying political horse trading too far.

According to Mohammed,the PDP has rolled out a mouth-watering enticement package that promises 2 million US dollars to each Senator who returns to the PDP; 1 million US dollars to each member of the House of Representatives, and 10 million dollars to each ‘leader’ who abandons the APC for PDP.It said the price tag for the federal legislators from Rivers State is even higher, at 5 million dollars each.

"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 clinic".

"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",Mohammed said.

Other than financial rewards, some other incentives being offered by the PDP include; governorship tickets, automatic tickets to the National Assembly in 2015, input into the emergence of PDP executives at the ward, local government, constituency/senatorial district – as may be applicable, prospect of wielding contacts in a PDP government to earn more money, protection from harassment by their godfathers and constituency projects.

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