Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has raised the alarm over the influx of questionable funds into the
State for the Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary
election.
He said genuine lovers of
democracy should be worried that over N5 billion cash will be going into mere
primary election of a political party that claimed to be fighting corruption.
The governor, who alleged that
some of the APC governorship aspirants had earmarked N1 billion each to buy
2,000 delegates and other ones between N500,000 and N200,000 for at least 1,500
delegates, said; “If truly President Muhammadu Buhari is truly fighting
corruption, anti-corruption agencies will have their searchlights beamed on the
conduct of the APC primary election in Ekiti State, with a view to unravelling
where the billions of naira cash being share left, right and center are coming
from.
“Even those claiming to have
integrity among them are saying on live radio programmes that they have enough
cash to bribe delegates, this is ridiculous.”
Special Assistant to the Governor
on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him
as saying in a release issued on Wednesday, that it was alarming and
questionable how a single aspirant will amass N2 billion to bribe delegates.
He asked: “Were they keeping the
money somewhere with the intention of using it to buy their party members that
they have impoverished by ruining the country’s economy?
“If they spend over N5 billion
just to get the party ticket, how much are they going to spend for the election
proper? And where lies their claim to anti-corruption fight?”
The governor however described
the naira rain in the APC as the party members’ share from the money their
leaders may have looted fro either from Ekiti treasury or national treasury.
Governor Fayose said even though
he remained confident that the APC will again be defeated in the July 14
governorship election, “the level at which cash is now flying among aspirants
of a party that claimed to be fighting corruption is worrisome.”
Fayose raises alarm over influx
of N5bn cash to Ekiti for APC guber primar.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has raised the alarm the influx of questionable funds into the State for
the Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election,
saying genuine lovers of democracy should be worried that over N5 billion cash
will be going into mere primary election of a political party that claimed to
be fighting corruption.
The governor, who alleged that
some of the APC governorship aspirant had earmarked N1 million each to buy
2,000 delegates and other ones between N500,000 and N200,000 for at least 1,500
delegates, said; “If truly President Muhammadu Buhari is truly fighting
corruption, anti-corruption agencies will have their searchlights beamed on the
conduct of the APC primary election in Ekiti State, with a view to unravelling
where the billions of naira cash being share left, right and center are coming
from.
“Even those claiming to have
integrity among them are saying on live radio programmes that they have enough
cash to bribe delegates, this is ridiculous.”
Special Assistant to the Governor
on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him
as saying in a release issued on Wednesday, that it was alarming and
questionable how a single aspirant will amass N2 billion to bribe delegates.
He asked: “Were they keeping the
money somewhere with the intention of using it to buy their party members that
they have impoverished by ruining the country’s economy?
“If they spend over N5 billion
just to get the party ticket, how much are they going to spend for the election
proper? And where lies their claim to anti-corruption fight?”
The governor however described
the naira rain in the APC as the party members’ share from the money their
leaders may have looted fro either from Ekiti treasury or national treasury.
Governor Fayose said even though
he remained confident that the APC will again be defeated in the July 14
governorship election, “the level at which cash is now flying among aspirants
of a party that claimed to be fighting corruption is worrisome.”
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you should not have raised any alarm or announcement for them, by so doing you are just trying to make them more popular because nobody will do anything about it even if it is more than that, so why are you shouting instead of concentrating on your good work for the people which cannot be erased by any amount. pls leave APC primary alone and mind the people you are governing. just stay focus and keep praying, God owns the heart of the not money.
ReplyDeleteYou just pray God Almighty will disgrace Buhari and his party members they are all rouges, the most corrupt government, the worst leadership so far in Nigeria, we are regretting our votes because there is too much hunger in the land, people are committing suicide any how, corruption on the high side, we are just tired of this good for nothing government, they have nothing to offer rather than lie lie lie...
ReplyDeleteplease die quickly before 2019. Since you people have concluded in churches and in some part of the southern Nigeria to denigrate PMB, the people of the north will do exactly opposite then we shall see who owns the population but please don't cry rigging or under-age voting at last. nonsense.
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