…Take the rice, but vote your for your conscience, says PDP<\/p>\n
In a desperate bid to swing victory in favour of his All Progressives The APC candidate, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has business links with Alhaji Sources close to the development said that Dangote had reluctantly The opposition Peoples Democratic Pay (PDP) in Edo said it was not worried PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Chris Nehikhare, when contacted, said “if “They should collect the rice because there is hunger in the land, which Reports have it that\u00a0 a 50 kilogramme bag of rice, which is the commonest Meanwhile, sources said that Dangote had expressed reservation about Dangote was said to have told Oshiomhole that intelligence reports at his But Oshiomhole, according to credible information, pleaded with Dangote to The business mogul was said to have shifted ground after placing it on It was learnt that Oshiomhole disagreed with the suggestion that he is the He was said to have assured Dangote that he knows how to “get” Edo voters …Take the rice, but vote your for your conscience, says PDP In a desperate bid to swing victory in favour of his All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the September…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nCongress (APC) candidate in the September 28<\/span><\/span> governorship election in Edo
\nState, Governor Adams Oshiomhole is said to have piled pressure on
\nAfrica’s richest man and biggest rice merchant in Nigeria, Alhaji Aliko
\nDangote, to make available bags of rice as well as cash with which to
\n“buy” votes from the electorate.<\/p>\n
\nDangote and has been instrumental to Dangote’s friendship with Oshiomhole
\nas well as to plans by Dangote to invest in the State.<\/p>\n
\nsuccumbed to Oshiomhole’s substantial pressure and would, in the next few
\ndays, donate to the APC tens of thousands bags of rice, which would be
\ndistributed to bribe Edo electorate ahead of the election.<\/p>\n
\nthat the development could undermine the integrity of the electoral
\nprocess and set the State on a retrogressive course because it believes
\nthe people now know better.<\/p>\n
\nthe feelers are true, then we owe it a duty to counsel Edo people not to
\nsell their birthright for a mess of porridge.\u00a0 We encourage them to
\ncollect the rice from APC but vote for their conscience.
\n“Thousands of Edo electorate who had already seen the light in the SIMPLE
\nagenda of the PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, should remain
\nfocused on the promises and prospects of a greater and glorious Edo State,
\nwhich Ize-Iyamu represents and exemplifies.<\/p>\n
\nwas caused by the directionless leadership of the APC-led Federal
\nGovernment that has plunged the nation into avoidable economic recession,
\nand go ahead to use their vote to punish\u00a0 the APC by rejecting it at the
\npoll.”<\/p>\n
\nstaple food in Nigeria, has gone out of the reach of the ordinary man,
\nwith the price rising from about N8,000 to about N22,000 since the APC
\nadministration of President Muhammadu Buhari took over power.<\/p>\n
\ninvesting more money as requested by Oshiomhole into the Edo APC
\ngovernorship project.<\/p>\n
\ndisposal indicated that the PDP is by far the favourite party among the
\nEdo electorate.<\/p>\n
\navail the APC and its candidate of his critical contribution as it would
\ngo a long way in helping to redirect the minds of the “hungry” people to
\nvote for Obaseki.<\/p>\n
\nrecord that Oshiomhole is the problem with the APC and its governorship
\ncandidate in the State.<\/p>\n
\nproblem, explaining that the problem is the transferred anger and
\naggression by the people due to the inability of the Federal Government to
\narrest the growing hunger in the country.<\/p>\n
\nas he has set a machinery in motion to make sure that the APC wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"