The Abdulwaheed Odunuga Campaign Organization have accused the candidate of the APC, Alhaja Kafilat Ogbara of vote buying strategy. Odunuga in a statement signed by the Secretary of the campaign organization, Kehinde Isiaka, alleged that the candidate of the APC hosted INEC adhoc staff members at her Magodo residence, ahead of the February 25th National Assembly election.
Below the statement reads;
“We want to use this medium to appeal and call on the Independent National Electoral Commission to take appropriate measures to ensure a free and fair elections are conducted at every registration area or polling unit all over the country as promised and expected considering some early developments in Kosofe towards the elections.
2. We have been reliably informed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mrs. Kafilat Ogbara had met with the Commission’s Ad-hoc staffs assigned to Kosofe local government area at her resident in Magodo, to seek for their supports and collaboration for partial favours through acts that will be aiding and abetting electoral favouritism to the APC. These said staffs parted away with foods and others and were also asked to share their Bank account details accordingly.
3. We want to also appeal to law enforcement agencies, especially the Department of State Services (DSS) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ensure all the INEC Staff and Ad-hoc Staff are properly profiled to ensure they act fairly and justly towards discharging their respective duties and not receiving undue favours from politicians that will discredit or arm the reputation of the independence and objectivity of INEC while those found wanting are properly investigated to face the wrath of the law.
4. We also want to use this medium to call on our supporters all over the wards to capture all election irregularities and anomalies with their phone to aid probes, investigations and litigation processes.
5. We cordially call on all electorates to ensure they carry out their civic duties in orderly, as the security operatives will be all out to ensure the electoral activities are not interrupted while the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has ordered the operatives to only be ruthless with those that plans to disrupt the activities accordingly.” It concluded.
