The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised alarm on the alleged rigging plot by the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, in the ongoing Osun governorship election.
Newsonline reports that the opposition PDP said the ruling APC has deployed billions of naira to compromise some security and electoral officers to intimidate voters, manipulate the electoral process and inordinately favour APC Candidate, Governor Gboyega Oyetola, against the Will of the people.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, alleged that “two prominent APC Governors from the South West, a former APC National Chairman from the South-South, certain federal Minister and a particular member of the House of Assembly from Lagos State are coordinating the release of billions of naira to bribe electoral and security officials as well as fund heavily armed thugs imported from Lagos, Ondo, Ogun and other South West States to unleash violence and help the APC to rig the election.”
While the election is ongoing at the time of filing this report, the PDP maintained that “the APC released N20 million and N15 million respectively to two top police officers; N10 million to four Assistant Inspector General of Police, N5 million each to four Commissioners of Police, N3 million each to 15 Deputy Commissioners of Police, N2million each to 30 Assistant Commissioners of Police to compromise the electoral process.
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“Our Party also has further reports of how the APC released the sum of N10 million per Local Government Area for INEC officials in all the 30 Local Government Areas in Osun State, N7million to thugs masquerading as Amotekun officials and a huge sum of money for propaganda to a certain compromised media outfit.”
The PDP Spokesman called on the “Inspector General of Police and the Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu to take immediate decisive steps to check the activities of police and INEC officials deployed to Osun State so as to avert a breakdown of Law and Order, especially given the manifest determination of the people of Osun State to resist the APC on its evil scheme.”
