Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over a statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) regarding the actual age of the newly elected APC National Youth Leader, Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo.
There had been controversy over his true age with many Nigerians condemning the APC for electing a 56 year-old man for the position.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Tuesday said it was disheartening that the APC had refused to shed its unnecessary penchant for lies even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Metuh pointed out that Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo contested for the Gombe/Kwame/Funakaye Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representative in 2011 and had declared at that time that he was 49 years old, a fact well documented.
“If Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo was 49 years in 2011, it naturally follows that he is 52 at present for which he should be grateful to God. It is therefore clear that the statement by the APC declaring him to be 43 years is false,” Metuh said.
“Whilst we concede that APC has the right to select a person of any age for any position within its fold, including a 52-year-old man of as National Youth Leader, we are however shocked that they chose to lie over an issue as ordinary as the age of a national officer.”
Metuh held that in lying over the age of its national officer, APC has shown that “it has little regard for integrity and that its statements cannot be trusted.”
He advised APC, now under a new leadership, to imbibe the culture of integrity and honesty especially as Nigerians deserve to know the truth and the correct state of facts always.
