Barely a week after it disowned a trending membership slip attributed to a notorious bandit, Bello Turji Kachalla, popularly known as Turji, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has pointed fingers of scorn at the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the mastermind of the fake slip.

The bandit operating In the North West states, particularly Zamfara, was reported to have registered in Ward 13 of Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, in a statement on Monday, alleged that the opposition party was responsible for the fabrication of the fake slip.

Responding to the claim by the ADC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Sunday that the ruling party was actually coercing civil servants to partake in its ongoing e-registration exercise, Morka dismissed the allegation as “entirely false and baseless, and sought to cast a shadow over the cutting-edge and pathbreaking digitisation of our party’s membership register.”

His statement read, “Terrified by massive All Progressives Congress (APC) membership registration in the ongoing electronic-registration exercise, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has spewed a nonsensical allegation that civil servants were being pressured to participate in our party’s e-registration exercise.

“That claim is entirely false and baseless, and seeks to cast a shadow over the cutting-edge and pathbreaking digitisation of our party’s membership register.

“It is a part of ADC’s disinformation campaign that included the fabrication and circulation of a fake,” APC membership slip’, purporting that a notorious terrorist had registered as a member of APC.

“Inspired by visible gains and impact of the Renewed Hope Agenda, millions of Nigerians have registered and continue to register, voluntarily and enthusiastically, as members of our party, compelling our leadership to yield to popular demand to extend the period of registration from January 31 to February 8, 2026.

“Clearly, the ADC is intimidated by the phenomenal success of our party’s e-registration exercise, for obvious reasons. However, that cannot justify concocting and spewing lies in an attempt to smear the exercise.

“While the ADC continues to fumble and peddle falsehood, our great party remains focused on its onward march as Africa’s standard-bearer of digital and democratic innovation.” (Nigerian Tribune)