Forced Registration of Civil Servants Into Kano APC Is Political Terrorism – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that the alleged forced registration of civil servants in Kano and other states, as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), against their will, is political terrorism. 

The party said that such action has not only exposed the level of public rejection that is now confronting the ruling party, but is symptomatic of a dying party gasping for breath.

The PDP added that Nigerians have rejected the APC and will never be intimidated by such threats.

The party, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “one can only pity APC leaders over the crushing public apathy against their fraudulent membership registration exercise, for which their Kano state Chairman, Abdulahi Abbas, out of frustration, threatened civil servants and other innocent Nigerians in the state, to join their dying party or lose all benefits and opportunities from the state government.

“It is appalling that after being exposed in their scheme of hiding under their duplicitous membership revalidation and re-registration exercise to inflate their membership register with fictitious figures, the APC leaders are now shamelessly resorting to harassing innocent civil servants and their families to register in the party, against their will.

“The fact that the APC has been reduced to a situation where it is rather forcing and coercing Nigerians in their supposed strongholds of Kano, Kaduna and Katsina state, who ordinarily should be trooping out enmasse to register, only goes to show that the APC is already dead in their consciousness, having betrayed them in the last six years.

“Nigerians should therefore disregard any membership figures that are eventually released by the APC as that would only be a product of inflated numbers made up of fictitious names and forced registration.”

The PDP condemned the alleged threat issued by the APC as completely unconstitutional, subversive and a criminal act of political banditry.

The party said that APC leaders should be told that such threats constitute a provocative assault on the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the citizens and it’s capable of triggering a serious social unrest with the propensity of derailing the nation’s democracy.

“The PDP, after due considerations, calls on the national leadership of the APC to call the Kano Chapter to order as Nigerians are not ready to stomach the littlest of victimization against any citizens over their manifest refusal to register as members of APC.

“The fact is that Nigerians have rejected the APC and such cannot be reversed by fraudulent registration exercise, forced registration or inflated membership register. 

“In any case, it will be useful to inform the APC that as they are busy coercing people and forging figures, millions of Nigerians are quietly trooping into our offices across the states, well ahead of the commencement of our official membership drive, to register with the PDP,” the party said.