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To ensure that his nephew and incumbent governor Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola wins Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has doled out millions of dollars to the monarchs and other stakeholders in the state.
A highly placed source confirmed to Pointblanknews.com that the Chairman of the Osun council of Traditional Rulers and the Ooni of Ife Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ọjájá II)
recieved a princely sum of $200 Thousand dollars while the Oluwo of Iwo land, Adewale Akanbi, a known associate of the APC leader got $100 thousand dollars. The least of the monarchs got $50 thousand dollars.
According to the Pointblanknews.com sources, “Today Asiwaju held a meeting with the monarchs and he bribed all the Kings in Osun this afternoon with $50k each. Ooni got $200k to deliver the state. Iwo King got $100k because he is his friend.”
The source also said that there has been a lot of vote buying going since yesterday. Virtually all the top political leaders have been mobilized to strategic localities including Ede, the home town of the PDP candidate with large sums of money to buy votes.
“Tinubu has moved into Osun until after the elections. He is personally overseeing the distribution of cash.
“Lagos is extremely broke. Apart from salaries nothing is happening in lagos. Contractors are owed. Nothing much is happening in terms of projects. This spending is a continuation from the APC convention where the Lagos State governor wilfully bankrolled the emergence of Tinubu.”
Earlier in the day, Pointblanknews.com reported that a Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed a suit seeking disqualification of Governor Oyetola from the State governorship election.
Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo dismissed the suit on six grounds that the plaintiff, a Chieftain of APC, Moshood Olalekan Adeoti failed to disclose any cause of action.
The Judge held that suit instituted by the former governorship aspirant constituted a gross abuse of court process and that the plaintiff did not exhaust internal mechanism for dispute resolution before rushing to court.
Governor Oyetola is seeking for a second term of office by another four years, having won the last election held in 2018.
The governorship election is billed for Saturday, July 16, 2022.
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