The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Gboyega Isiaka, has warned the All Progressives Congress to desist from spreading rumours that the party was buying Permanent Voter Cards from the electorate.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had in a statement on Wednesday alleged that his party had proof that prospective voters had been offered money by the PDP in exchange for their PVCs.
Isiaka, in a statement by the Director General of his campaign organisation, Ifekayode Akinbode, said that the allegation was “a grand design to prepare the minds of APC supporters for imminent defeat.”
The governorship candidate said no amount of blackmail would save Governor Ibikunle Amosun from defeat on April 11.
Isiaka, however, called on the security agencies to investigate the allegation and make public their findings.
He said, “It is rather unfortunate that the APC spinners could stoop so low in raising a false alarm instead of apologising to the people of the state for plunging them into unnecessary debt. How can anybody think of such allegation of buying PVC at N10, 000 in a state like Ogun? This shows their character as they usually resort to lies and propaganda whenever they face defeat in an election.
“Today in Ogun, secondary school students cannot write examinations for two consecutive terms because the government could not pay the N180m it owes printers of examination papers. No single infrastructure has been added to all the tertiary institutions and health facilities since 2011.”
Credits: TOLUWANI ENIOLA
