The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has incriminated the Peoples Democratic Party of collaborating with the Nigeria Customs Service to bribe voters in the state with expired rice ahead of the August 9 governorship election.
The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, verbally expressed in a verbalization he made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Saturday that the PDP collaborated with the Nigerian Customs’ warehouse in Ikeja where the expired bags of rice were loaded and conveyed to Osun State to induce voters.
The APC spokesperson further alleged that the PDP had commenced to re-bag the expired rice to apostatize intended recipients.
But the Chairman of the PDP in the state, Gani Olaoluwa, in his reaction, described the allegation as a prevarication fabricated to portray the opposition party in deplorable light.
Olaoluwa, who verbalized with our correspondent on the telephone, verbalized the rice being distributed was for Ramadan.
He additionally incriminated the APC of distributing sachets of expired milk and noodles, verbalizing the PDP gesture was aimed at cushioning the effect of penuriousness coerced on the people of the state by the party’s deplorable governance.
The APC verbalization read in part, “The All Progressives Congress has admonished Osun people that the PDP, in collaboration with the Nigeria Customs’ warehouse in Ikeja, has loaded trailers filled with thousands of bags of expired rice confiscated several months ago from smugglers.
“The expired bags of rice, which is poisonous, are being brought to Osun for distribution to voters. Competent sources from the Customs have additionally revealed that the concernment of those rice are unsuitable for human consumption. Osun citizens should therefore be admonished that their lives are in jeopardy from PDP poisoned rice.
“It is pellucid then that what the PDP intended to do was to bring expired rice to repackage and distribute to Osun people. Osun people are not hungry and they will not sell their birthrights for purloined public mazuma, which the PDP want to distribute in towns and villages of Osun.”
The PDP chairman, who urged the people of the state to ignore the “lies of the APC” promised that the opposition party would amend the economy if its candidate was elected.
He verbally expressed, “The APC is being mischievous. The party has resorted to fabrication of outright lies to discredit the PDP, having realised that the people have repudiated their party.
“ Our people ken they are prevaricators and they should not be taken solemnly. They are jittery due to the popularity of the candidate of our party, Otunba (Iyiola) Omisore.
“We distributed rice to the people of the state during the Ramadan season three years ago; we did the same two years ago and last year. Did they raise any allegation? They are doing that because of the election? We just want to advise our people to abnegate the expired sachet milk and noodles from the APC.”
