Alleged Vote Buying: APC, PDP Fights Dirty Over Abacha’s Loot

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The All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State yesterday exchanged verbal invectives over PDP’s allegations that the ruling party reserved recovered loot for vote-buying.

The opposition said the ruling party allegedly perfected plans to use the recovered loot from the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to buy votes in the forthcoming polls, use security operatives to rig the elections and use officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to perpetrate electoral fraud.

But the APC denied the claim, describing it as a figment of imagination orchestrated by the enemies of progressive Nigeria.

The state’s Director of Media and Publicity of the Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign Council, Lere Olayinka accused the APC of plotting massive vote-buying in next Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.

He alleged that N112.5 billion had been appropriated to buy projected 15 million votes at N7,500 per vote.

But APC’s Director of Media for the state’s Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Council, Tai Akogun, described the allegations as cruel and irresponsible.

He said President Muhammadu Buhari is man of integrity who would never attempt to buy votes.

Akogun said the President’s monumental achievements in all sectors would give him enough votes.

The campaign spokesman noted that President Buhari has performed creditably well to be given a second term by Nigerians on a platter of gold.

The PDP said: “While their plots are in two folds. They are forging ahead with their covert plot to compromise the INEC and rig the elections by getting the electoral commission to produce two sets of result sheets (Form EC8A) for some selected polling units across the country, they are also plotting massive vote-buying.”

But Akogun said: “Everybody knows President Buhari as a man of integrity, by this time four years ago, we were already hearing about raising huge funds for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign, where contractors were raising huge funds. But now, you can’t hear of any contractors doing that. Is this kind of President the one that would waste N112 billion for campaign?”

He added: “Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi is not a frivolous person; he is not a kind of person that will use such money to buy votes.

“This is a cruel and irresponsible allegation. The PDP is only crying foul because they know they are losing the coming polls.

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