Dokpesi: AIT chief is our media partner, not founder - APDA

The party made the clarification in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Tosin Adeyanju on Wednesday in Abuja.

The Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), says Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications, is not the founder of the party, but its media partner.

The party made the clarification in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Tosin Adeyanju on Wednesday in Abuja.

It also dismissed claims credited to Dokpesi that the party was registered to serve as an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The statement explained that APDA’s National Chairman, Malam Shitu Mohammed, approached Dokpesi to partner with his media outfit during the process leading to the registration of the party.

It added that the present National Secretariat of the party was donated by Mohammed, and challenged Dokpesi to disclose how much he spent in financing APDA.

“We challenge him to name the PDP governors and the Federal Government Agency which he claims is sponsoring APDA.

“These two clarifications would easily exonerate him or clearly show that his claims are not true, for what it is worth.’’

The statement further discountenance claims by Dokpesi that APDA was a plan B for Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led group of the PDP, stressing that the PDP family had publicly disowned any link to the party.