PDP flays APC on foreign consultant
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday flayed the bid by the APC to engage the services of a foreign firm, AKPD Message and Media to boost its electoral chances in the 2015.
The APC on Tuesday has announced that it has engaged the services of some International experts in democratic processes for its activities.
APC said in a statement issued in Lagos by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that it has engaged the services of prominent international political consultants AKPD Message and Media to boost its electoral chances in the upcoming elections.
The party said the U.S.-based firm is best known for its lead role in President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
It explained that the consulting firm has also worked with key Democratic party candidates throughout the U.S. and has a strong reputation for supporting leading populist movements across the globe.
The PDP called on Nigerians to resist the action of the APC saying it is an attempt by the APC to throw the nation back to imperialism,
A statement by the national publicity secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh said this was not only a clear justification of its stand that the APC is antiNigeria but another insult on the hard working citizens of our dear country.
“In engaging the services of a foreign firm, the APC has shown that it does not have faith in our people, our indigenous consultancy firms and the teeming well qualified, world acclaimed Nigerian professionals and technocrats.
The PDP said the action. “Nigerians are discerning enough to see the clever attempt to cover this monumental insult by dropping the name of President Obama, who was duly re-elected by the popular votes of the people of the United States as a beneficiary of this consultancy service.”
“This ulterior motive of the APC explains the reason it has mindlessly been opposing and attacking all the people oriented projects and policies of the PDP-led Federal Government which have enthroned an unprecedented empowerment of indigenous firms, an economic agenda strongly embedded in the manifesto of our great party, seeking the transfer wealth from public institutions to the private sector.”