APC, PDP used foreign firms to spy on each other before 2015 elections - Shehu Sani

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- Nigerian political parties seek to outsmart themselves during elections

- The case was not different in the 2015 general elections

- Both the then ruling party and the opposition snooped on each other for political gains

Senator Shehu Sani has revealed that both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), contracted foreign firms to spy on each other in the months leading up to the 2015 elections.

Sani, an APC lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, made the revelation on his Twitter page.

According to him, both parties carried out the action to spy on each other and damage the reputation of each other's candidate.

He however cautioned that such tactics should not be employed again in future elections.

He wrote: “In the run up to Nigeria’s 2015 elections, the then ruling party used Cambrige Analytica and the then opposition used Chicago based AKPD to spy on and damage the reputation of each other’s candidate.Using foreign consultants to destroy ourselves and our country must not happen again.”

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Meanwhile, more key members are dumping the APC in Kaduna state over what they described as high handedness by party’s managers in the state.

The latest chieftain of the party to leave is a founding member, Alhaji Lawal Adamu Usman, popularly known as ‘Mr LA,’ who has tendered his resignation.

His resignation is coming few days after a former Kaduna gubernatorial aspirant of the party, Isa Ashiru Kudan, dumped the ruling party for the PDP in the state.

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