By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE

National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh has advised Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, to steer clear of politics of falsehood and propaganda, which he alleged the APC leadership had embarked upon.

Reacting to the parading of 22 chairmen of APGA at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, where Akande received them, Umeh, in a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Mr. Stan Okeke, described the exercise as a parade of garage touts by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State.

Recalling that various newspapers had reported that five National Working Committee, NWC, members of APGA were also said to have defected to APC at the same ceremony, Umeh explained that no NWC member defected to APC, emphasizing that it was rather five redundant state chairmen of APGA from Lagos, Cross River, Niger, Kogi and Taraba states that joined the APC.

He said APGA was embarrassed by the news story, wondering how an elderly man as Akande could have allowed himself to be deceived by Governor Okorocha. According to him, Chief Akande stood the chance of verifying the claims before setting up the phantom defection ceremony.

This action, Umeh stated, portrayed APC as an unserious and desperate organisation. He advised Akande to avoid politics of propaganda, adding that what the citizenry expected from APC was much more than what the party is presently offering Nigerians.