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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the “mega rally” of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which was held on Tuesday in Osogbo, as a “colossal failure”.

In another tensed exchange, PDP dismissed APC’s rally as a “jamboree of rented crowd”. APC had earlier accused the PDP of renting a crowd for its own rally of Saturday.

Speaking through its national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, PDP said on Tuesday that the rally was “full of hollow and meaningless speeches symptomatic of a sinking party desperate for survival”.

“Nigerians are aware that at the rally was a crowd mobilised from other states to join APC officials who were forced to relocate to Osun to create an impression of massive support for the party and its candidate,” it said.

“However, we invite the APC to note that it is only the people of Osun and not their hired crowd and horde of entertainers that will vote on Saturday.”

Stressing that a big humiliation awaits the APC, PDP lampooned APC leaders who “experienced a foretaste of the bitter fate ahead, when the citizens of Osun state booed and jeered at them, calling their party ‘one-chance bus’ as they arrived in the state with their rented supporters.”

The party thanked the people of Osun state for the support and solidarity its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was receiving, and urged them to remain vigilant ahead of the election.