Money For Votes: APC Alerts INEC, Security Agencies

The All Progressives Congress has warned that some politicians are reportedly planning to use money to brazenly influence the September 2018 governorship election in Osun

According to the party, “This must be a red signal for security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission”, the APC alerted.

In a statement from the party’s directorate of publicity, research and strategy released today in Osogbo to the media, the party alleged that “the rumour mill is awash with conflicting reports as to how much each voter will be induced with.

“This is a serious situation that should not be taken lightly”, the APC said, arguing that recent allegations across the country of brazen use of money to disgracefully influence the electoral process must not be allowed to happen in Osun.

“It is high time this criminal activity was stopped by law-enforcement agencies and INEC”, the APC declared.

“We cannot continue this way because it is a disgrace to this country in the international community‎ and it further puts our fledgling democracy at grave risk”,the party said.

“INEC and the law-enforcement agencies have a serious work to do in Osun to put desperate politicians on notice that this crime will not be allowed to continue.

“But of greater urgency is for politicians in the country to realise that they are the ones practically responsible for corrupting the electoral process, thus endangering the democracy that we fought so hard to re-establish in 1999”, the APC urged.

However, turning to the people of Osun, the APC ‎said that “citizens should reject the insult of being treated by politicians like disposable commodities that can be bought for peanuts.

“You are far greater and much better than being lured by revelling but extraordinarily rich‎ politician, (who, by the way, is least qualified), dangling N10,000 or N5,000 to sell your birthright and refuse to  vote for a qualified and best suited governor of the state.

By the way, how much is 10,000 naira worth in four years – just about seven nairs a day. Can you imagine the insult that a politician thinks your worth is N7 a day?

“If that politician was really‎ out to serve, he wouldn’t need to buy your vote. But because he is rather into politics to profit from it, he would bribe you with peanuts in order to have access to the treasury of the state”, the APC said.

“Whatever happens, the people of Osun should be exceedingly thoughtful about who they will eventually vote for otherwise and God forbids, a vulture will steal their ‎legacy”, the APC said.

Kunle Oyatomi Esq, Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, APC, State of Osun