Focus on real campaign - PDP tells APC, says APC plans fake poll rating for Buhari

Focus on real campaign - PDP tells APC, says APC plans fake poll rating for Buhari

A statement from  PDP below...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has counseled the All Progressives  Congress (APC) and its Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari  to focus on real campaign and try to win followers genuinely instead of  applying cheap diversionary tactics.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Monday said “the APC so called ‘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 dramatizing.  What will count is record of performance and antecedents, which  President Jonathan stands taller than General Buhari.

“It is therefore not surprising that the APC and its Presidential  candidate will resort to organizing a kangaroo opinion rating in a  failed attempt to cover up their inadequacies and manipulate public  perception in their favour.

This APC phantom poll has been designed in such a way to make the  Nigerian public believe that 75 percent of the voting population is in  support of General Buhari ahead the February 14 Presidential election.

Our findings reveal that the APC leaders are already intensifying effort  to compromise some section of the media so as to ensure that the poll  packaged by its foreign consultants is widely publicized.

Part of the strategy is 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 General Buhari.

We are indeed shocked at the level the APC and its presidential  candidate have sunk in their desperation for power. We hereby urge  Nigerians, particularly the media to be wary of this plot to deceive the  public and truncate our democratic process.

Our final advice to the APC is that they should focus on real campaign  and stop playing to the gallery. Lies, no matter how much embellished  can never take the place of truth and nothing built on falsehood  stands.  This election is not about fake figures and falsehood. It is  about the choice of the citizens. Nigerians have since made up their  minds to continue identifying with their performing President and no  amount of propaganda and misrepresentation by the APC can change this.

Signed:

Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary
Source: Focus on real campaign - PDP tells APC, says APC plans fake poll rating for Buhari