By Vera Chinonso Aliyu, YeyeNews.com, November 7, 2021
The Nigerian internet fraudsters popular called ‘Yahoo boys’ registered en-masse in the last APC membership registration exercise to checkmate the incessant harassment by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) . According to the source who chatted with YeyeNews.com, the mass registration was orchestrated through social media channels frequented mostly by Yahoo boys.
The source who claimed to belong to the Association of Mothers of Yahoo boys told YeyeNews.com reporter that a particular political-connected member prevailed on one mother to start the association and then use the platform to talk their children into taking the advantage of the membership registration into the ruling party to forestall the incessant harassment by the EFCC.
“We no longer have rest of mind at home because of the way EFCC agents have been targeting our children. Without these our children many of us would have died but now EFCC want to remove the blessing God has given us. So after observing how politicians join APC and all their corruption cases ends abruptly we decided in one of the meetings of Association of Mothers of Yahoo boys that we must do everything to ensure our children get the APC membership. Not only that they must make generous financial contribution to the party. We believe that will keep the EFCC off their backs. You know that the broom washes away every sin in this country”, the source narrated.
Another mother of a Yahoo boy confirmed to YeyeNews.com that her son and his friends did register in the last APC membership registration exercise. “I personally followed my son to register. I am aware all his friends have done the same. When they were raided in their hotel by EFCC last week, it was even the APC ward chairman that rescued them by identifying them as party members. That is one advantage that their membership has conferred”.
Many Yahoo boys who did not register with the party in the exercise are now lobbying to do so after learning about the advantage from their friends, a ward executive of the party in Surulere disclosed. “Membership requests keep coming on a daily basis. We are still discussing with the State executive to grant us permission to start the registration. You know becoming a member of our party comes with some important advantages”, the ward executive boosted.
