Vote Buying: ‘We have been Vindicated, Investigate Oshiomhole Now’ – PDP to EFCC

The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been urged to investigate the former Governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomohle, over alleged vote buying.

TrackNews Media reports that the Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the call following Oshiomhole’s submission on the events that happened during the 2019 elections general elections.

Oshiomohle, a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had remarked during the book launch of the party’s former national vice chairman, Salihu Lukman, from the North West region, that the APC spent a total of N2.4 billion to secure victory in the 2019 governorship elections in various states.

Specifically, he mentioned that N800 million was allocated to Imo, Ogun, Kwara, and Taraba due to strong opposition leaders in those states.

TrackNews Media recalls that Oshiomohle, while he was the national chairman of the APC, engaged in a bitter rivalry with former Senate president of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki after the latter dumped the party for the PDP.

The party’s candidates for the states caused a disagreement between him and former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, as well as former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha.

However, the Kwara PDP released a statement on Thursday through its state publicity secretary, Olusegun Olusola Adewara, urging the EFCC to initiate an investigation into Senator Oshiomhole promptly.

“We are vindicated by Oshiomhole’s public admittance that the 2019 elections in Kwara were rigged to dislodge Saraki.

“However, we want to assert that Oshiomhole’s public confession of indulging in vote-buying politics constitutes a serious breach of Nigerian law,” the opposition party noted.