All Political Parties Hire Crowds For Rallies – APC Chieftain

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Samuel Yohanna, has claimed that all political parties hire crowds for rallies and other political events.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday, Yohanna said the only difference is the level at each political party hires crowd.

The former Assistant Organising Secretary for the APC in Kaduna described himself as a pragmatic and thoroughbred person, who knows the antics of politicians.

“We are thoroughbred politicians and we’ve been in this game for a very long time. We understand how this thing goes.

“There is no political party that does not hire crowds. It is just that the level each political party hires, sometimes 25 percent, sometimes 10 percent, sometimes 99 percent,” he said.

He also alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in the state was disrupted because the party failed to pay those that were hired to attend the event.

“When they (hired crowds) found out that it was PDP’s usual way of deceit, they knew that this money was not going to come and the next thing is to vent their anger on innocent Nigerians that came there for appearance because as far as we are concerned in the APC, PDP is no match to us and 99% of the crow you saw there that day came there on an appearance,” he said.

However, the Chairman of the Venue Committee for the PDP Presidential Rally in Kaduna, Mark Jacob, debunked Yohanna’s claims, saying that the PDP has no money to hire crowds.

He said it is unfortunate that the APC stalwart on national television admitted that the ruling party normally hires people to normally attend its functions.

“The PDP does not have that capacity. The sitting government goes to hire millions of people because they have sources of funding. The PDP in Kaduna has been out of government since 2015 and we don’t have a minister, we don’t have a commissioner that will give us money to hire a crowd,” he said.