“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,” Yohanna said on a Channels TV programme on Thursday.
Yohanna, a former assistant organising secretary for the APC in Kaduna, self-described as a "pragmatic person" and claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party broke its promise to "hired crowds," resulting in the disruption of Atiku Abubakar's event on October 17, 2022, in Kaduna.
“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 alleged.
The PDP chieftain who talked on the programme with Yohanna refuted the APC chieftain's assertions, asserting that the PDP lacks the resources to hire supporters. Mark Jacob.
The Chairman of the Venue Committee for the PDP Presidential Rally in Kaduna, Jacob, said it is regrettable that an APC official on national television acknowledged that the ruling party typically recruits people to attend their events.
“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.