THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mocked the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Presidency for wooing its members after branding them corrupt.

A presidential aide yesterday confirmed that the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswil Akpabio, was been lured to join the APC. The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, is also among those being persuaded to join the ruling party.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, posted a message on Facebook, Saturday night, saying that Mr Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and other top leaders of the party at a rally in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom state.

Mr Akpabio, a former governor of the state is currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged gift of N1.4bn to a bank for unknown reasons.



He is also being probed on allegations that the former governor embezzled N108bn during his tenure between 2007 and 2015.

But the PDP is asking why the ruling party are now wooing those it branded corrupt into its fold “having failed to cow such persons through threats, media trials, trumped up corruption charges and raw violence, the APC is now seeking to ensnare them with promises of political opportunities it no longer has control over.”

The opposition party in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the move as “a failed antic of an apprehended and deflated felon.”

The party said it was “despicable and hypocritical, for attempting to woo PDP members into its now discredited and famished fold.

“The PDP has nothing but pity for the APC, who, in its blind desperation, cannot see that the train has since left the station and that no body, no matter the lure, abandons a cruising liner, which the PDP now represents, to jump into a sinking ship with a disoriented captain which the APC has become.

“Indeed, no one, no matter the enticement, runs into a collapsing building from where terrified, wounded and traumatized people are already taking flight for their dear lives.



“Nigerians can now see the shameless hypocrisy of the APC, which is now going about, cap in hand, to beg the same persons it haunted as corrupt and evil, seeing that it has been overrun by the tides.

“The dilapidated APC, by now, ought to have known that no Nigerian will again fall for its gimmick of false promises and subject him or herself to the prison yard democracy, that it offers.

“We therefore counsel the APC to leave our members alone and stop acting like that evil character who roams about seeking for whom to devour or drag along into the pit, knowing that his time is short.

“The APC should quit its antics and find an abandoned cave of history to lick its wounds, having squandered the goodwill given to it by Nigerians in 2015.

“The eclipsing APC must know that Nigerians have had enough of its lies, deception, propaganda, contrivances, beguilements and are now resolute in their iron-cast determination to rally on the platform of the repositioned PDP to rescue our nation from the curse which the APC has come to represent in the last three years,” the statement read.