Reactions track the appointment by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the 52-year-old Ibrahim Jalo as party National Youth Leader.
Jalo’s election as the incipient executive on June 13 sparked controversies and reproval among Nigerians, Premium Times reports. Special ato the issue was magnetized by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that verbalized on its official page that despite APC’s claim that Jalo is 43, he is 10 year older.The ruling party took to Facebook with the verbal expression entitled "PDP Expresses Shock Over APC Defence On Youth Leader’s Age Seeks End To Culture Of Lying" and signed by the party National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh.
See the extract below:
"It is public cognizance that Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo contested the Gombe/Kwame/Funakaye Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representative in 2011 during which he declared his age to be 49 years. The records are there and they verbalize for themselves.
"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 verbal expression by the APC declaring him to be 43 years is mendacious."
The PDP stressed that the were shocked not with the genuine age of the incipient bellwether, but with the fact of prevarication distributed by the APC. Thus they inculpated their opponents for lack of integrity advising them to imbibe the culture of veracity in the party and integrating that Nigerians deserve truth.
