The All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from a viral membership card allegedly issued to a notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji describing the claim as false and misleading.
The party said it did not issue any membership card to the individual, as images circulating online continue to generate public outrage and security concerns.
The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja has also disowned the membership card allegedly issued to bandit leader, Mohammed Bello Turji and it advised Nigerians to disregard the claim that the party was registering bandits as its members.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, the APC stated that it commenced thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident and found out that the registration card was forged and was therefore fake.
The statement reads in full: “The attention of the All Progressives Congress has been drawn to a fake “APC membership slip” in circulation on social media falsely suggesting that a despicable and notorious terrorist, Mohammed Bello Turji, was registered as a member of our Party in the ongoing APC Electronic Registration and Validation exercise.
“The membership slip is a fabrication, fake and without any association or link, whatsoever, with our membership register and database.
“All digital parameters represented on the fake slip bear no connection to our Party’s membership register. For example, the slip purports to be registered in a nonexistent “Ward 13” of Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State which only has 10 Wards. All other information paraded on the fake slip are nonexistent and certainly not contained in our membership database.
“This vile fabrication is the handiwork of mischief makers out to hoodwink and confuse members of the public for their own sinister objectives.
“We urge all Party faithfuls and the general public to disregard the highly offensive document in its entirety.
AFRESH247 recalled that the Zamfara State chapter of the APC had earlier reacted to the said membership slip, noting that the party has pinpointed the source of the forgery to be a former member, who was denied reregistration due to character issues.
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