PHCN BID: Crying govs’ firm cheated – Atedo

By Clara Nwachukwu
LAGOS—It was alleged, yesterday, that Southern Electricity Distribution Company, the consortium floated by four governors, to bid for the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, DISCO, cheated by submitting two bids during the commercial bid opening ceremony.
Also, despite emerging the highest bidder for four  of the DISCOs, Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Company, promoted by former President Abdulsalami Abubakar, will only have access to two of the companies after passing the stress test or consistency test.
The governors were said to have submitted a “primary bid” and an “alternate bid” for the same Benin DISCO, apparently to give them a better chance of winning the bid, which failed as the two bids fell short of what was presented by Vigeo Power Consortium, which clinched the bid.
Addressing journalists in Lagos, yesterday, on the unfolding drama now trailing the bid process, the Chairman, Technical Committee, National Council on Privatisation, Mr. Atedo Peterside, said decision on the governor’s alleged fraud will be decided by the NCP before month end, during which it would also announce the bid winners for the respective DISCOs.

Emmanuel Uduaghan, Olusegun Mimiko, Adams Oshiomhole and Kayode Fayemi

At the opening of the commercial bids in Abuja, last week, six firms emerged bid winners for 10 DISCOs  created from the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. The development signalled another era in Federal Government’s efforts to hand over the electricity sector to private investors in order to make them more efficient.

Flouting the rules

Peterside, who explained that his team needed to clarify on the four allegations made by the governors, noted that “Southern Consortium is the only one of the 16 consortia that participated in the bid opening to have submitted multiple commercial bids for the same Disco.
“Their envelope contained two different commercial bids, both of which were signed by a Mr. Matthew Edevbie. The first bid was dubbed the ‘primary’ bid, while the other was dubbed an ‘alternate’ bid.”

Atedo Peterside

The committee chair added that the alleged fraud was “a clear contravention of the Request for Proposal, RFP. We did not make a big issue of this on live TV because both the primary and the alternate bids fell below the bid submitted by Vigeo, and so neither bid would alter Southern Consortium’s ranking on the large screen. Instead, this matter was brought to the attention of the Technical Committee of NCP, which considered the breach and made recommendations to the NCP.”

Governors’ allegations

Four state governors- Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State; Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, last week, described the award of the Benin DISCO to Vigeo, as a total fraud and unacceptable.
However, the NCP classified the governor’s declaration into four issues bothering on transparency, the use of Aggregate Technical, Commercial and Collection, ATC&C loss reduction strategy as a criteria, the technical and financial competence of Vigeo Power, and investments by the respective states in the Benin DISCO.

Changing the rules of the game

Peterside, flanked by  other NCP members, including the Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, responded to each of the allegations. He said that the governors’ actions  were tantamount to wanting to change the rules after the game had been played, especially as the rules were set two years ago and were accepted by all.
“They had ample opportunity to participate in the various investors’ fora that BPE held to communicate with potential bidders and obtain feedback. Following the release of RFPs, Southern Consortium undertook due diligence on Benin Disco, met with various officials of BPE and asked questions that were promptly and comprehensively answered. They never made any allegations of lack of transparency until after the race had been run via the commercial bid opening ceremony, which was televised live.”
He added: “Before the bids were opened, the ground rules of the bid opening were read out and circulated and it was made clear to all that the ground rules were in accordance with the RFP, which all the bidders were given the opportunity to comment upon and accept before they submitted their technical and commercial proposals.”
With regard to the use of the ATC&C loss reduction strategy, the committee chairman explained it was a deliberate policy of the NCP, “aimed at addressing the identified problems within the distribution segment of the sector,” in view of the very high loss rations of the DISCOs, which was put at between 35 and 40 per cent.
Furthermore, he said, “bidders were told from the onset that they would compete on the basis of a trajectory of technical, commercial and collection loss improvements for the first five years of operation. Furthermore, this method is built around the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) 2 issued by the NERC – the industry regulator.”
He added that the “NCP approved the privatisation strategy for the Discos, based on the use of ATC&C loss reduction proposal as a basis for core investor selection, as far back as 11th June, 2010. The advertisements that ran in December 2010 soliciting for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from prospective core investors emphasised that the BPE would use this strategy.”
Also, he recalled that the BPE solicited for feedback from investors on the policy, and governors’ consortium did not raise any objections on it until now.
The committee chairman further noted that apart from the bid process being very transparent and in line with due process, the governors’ remark on the competence of the Indian company was ironical, considering that they were also relying on the expertise of another Indian company to run the DISCO.
He explained that pre-qualification was done on the basis of the following:
* Experience in operation and maintenance of distribution companies
* Experience in developing countries;
* Technical and investment plan;
* Management and staffing—human resources; and
* Financing plan and ability to raise finance.
“Incidentally both Southern Consortium and Vigeo had competent technical partners from India,” he added.
In the NCP records, the ownership of the Consortium is comprised of seven members, including:
*Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited (of India) [25% equity of consortium,
*Income Electrix Limited (of Nigeria) (25 %)
*Smartworks Global Resources Ltd (of Nigeria)(8.3%)
*Pinnacle Power Projects & Services Ltd (of Nigeria) [31.7%]
*Fountain Holdings Limited (of Nigeria)[3.33%]
*Citadel Nominees (of Nigeria)[3.33%], and,
*NJ Services (of Nigeria)[3.33%] .
From the above equity composition, Peterside calculated that the state governors own only about 10 per cent of the consortium, while the larger percentage of close to 90% is owned by private sector companies that were not owned directly or indirectly by them.
Finally, with regard to investments by the respective states, he reiterated that the essence of the privatisation is not to transfer assets from one level of government to another, but from public sector to private sector to enhance efficiency.
Besides, he noted all the state governments were already part owners of the respective DISCOs in their domains by virtue of the fact that only 60 per cent of the DISCO’s equity were put up for sale, while the remaining 40 per cent would be shared among the Federal, State and PHCN workers.
“The valuation will be determined by the electricity regulator, NERC, working in collaboration with the state governments,” he said and for the states it will be done on pro-rata basis.

Two DISCOs per bidder

Peterside noted that no matter the bid results, only the NCP chaired by Vice President Namadi Sambo, reserved the right to declare bid winners.
He also used the opportunity to clarify growing concerns that Integrated Energy won four of the bids. He said:  “The rules made it clear that you can bid for more than one DISCO, but you cannot win more than two even if you won in all the bids.”
Accordingly, Integrated Energy will only have two of the DISCOs if it passes the stress test. Furthermore, even if it passed the test, it cannot have both the Eko and Ikeja DISCOs, because according to the committee boss, “we do not want Lagos to come under monopoly, so the same bidder cannot win the two because they are also congruent.”
Not denying that some bidders may have had an idea that they would win the bid, Peterside noted that based on the ATC&C pre-qualification, those who scored above the 75 per cent cut off mark like in Yola and Port Harcourt DISCOs and who were sole bidders, knew they had won the bid and indulged in premature celebrations.
Vanguard

Opposition as Reps move to abridge CBN autonomy

by John Ameh

CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Stakeholders in the financial sector,  including a former Minister of Finance, Mr. Adamu Ciroma, and an ex-Central Bank of Nigeria  Governor,  Chief Joseph Sanusi, on Monday, opposed the bid by the House of Representatives to tamper with the CBN autonomy.

They cautioned the House against altering the  globally accepted  trend, which encourages an autonomous and financially-independent apex bank.

There is a bill before the House, which seeks to amend the CBN Act 2007 by transferring the power of the board of the bank to approve its budget to the National Assembly. The bill also proposes to cut the membership of the board from 12 to seven and to appoint another person, other than the CBN governor, as the chairman of the board.

Ciroma and Sanusi spoke at a public hearing organised in Abuja by the Joint House Committee on Banking/Currency and Justice to amend the CBN Act.

Ciroma, a former CBN governor, wondered what aim the proposals would achieve. He argued that to whittle down the power of the CBN governor or exclude the deputy governors from the decisions of the board was “out of line with international best practices.”

Ciroma said, “The CBN board has always been made up of executive members of the bank and private sector persons who have distinguished themselves.

“There is  a great danger in excluding the governor and the knowledgeable people in the economy and banking system from the CBN.”

On his part, Sanusi told the committee that the proposals were strange to him, adding that he was at a loss over what the House  aimed  to achieve.

Sanusi said, “We are not moving in the right path because in all countries of the world, the CBN governor heads the board.

“The only exceptions will be inconsequential CBNs. To be different has very serious implications for inflation. “It means we have a CBN that no longer has control.”

Sanusi observed that the proposed amendments must have come out of some misunderstanding between the current CBN governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, and the National Assembly. He urged both parties to make efforts to bridge any communication gap between them.

CBN Deputy Governor (Banking Operations), Mr. Tunde Lemo, also kicked against the amendments on the grounds that a CBN without autonomy was as good as no CBN.

He explained that due to the impact of the bank’s policies on the economy, it could not afford to subject its decisions to external influences such as the National Assembly.

“The CBN Act, 2007, works effectively as it is now and requires no amendments,” he said.

According to Lemo, the aim of the apex bank is not to make policies that will achieve immediate political aims.

“The CBN cannot afford to wait for bureaucratic approvals before acting fast in taking decisions,” he argued.

“If the CBN had waited for the approval of the National Assembly before doing what it did (banks bailout), maybe by now there would have been no banking sector in this  country,” he added.

Apart from leading to higher inflation, he claimed that a CBN without autonomy would be unable to perform its lender of last resort function, among others.

Other stakeholders that opposed the proposed amendments included the Nigerian Labour Congress, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, First Bank Plc, Zenith Bank and Ecobank.

However, the Chairman of the committee, Mr. Jones Onyereri, told the session that the House had no motives other than to strengthen the CBN and make its operations more transparent and open .

The Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, argued that if the President of the country could not spend “a penny without the approval of the National Assembly,” he  did  not see why the CBN should not be accountable to Nigerians.

Punch

Nigerian diplomats in Europe, Americas stranded •Use Ghanaians as fronts to secure accommodation •As FG owes them salaries, allowances

by Taiwo Adisa 

NIGERIA’S foreign service officials have become the laughing stocks of the diplomatic world in Europe and the Americas following the failure of the home government to remit their salaries and allowances to them as and when due.
Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that in most parts of Europe and the Americas, Nigerian diplomats now have to resort to using Ghanaians as fronts when looking for accommodation because most landlords refuse to let their houses to Nigerians.
The issue, according to sources especially in Switzerland, Italy, Canada, United States and Germany, has to do with the failure of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to remit the salaries and allowances of the foreign service staff to the respective embassies and high commissions on time.
Right now, sources confirmed that Nigerian diplomats across Europe and the Americas are being owed minimum of two months salaries and allowances.
Sources confirmed that the plight of the foreign service staff was further compounded by the fact that they cannot utilise the earnings of their respective embassies from visa applications on ways and means.
Investigations further revealed that most embassies and high commissions are compelled to use the resources they make from visa applications to offset salaries of local staff and pay for services, while the Nigerian officials are left to fend for themselves until Abuja releases funds.
The case of Canada was said to have got worse in recent weeks, forcing Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe to run to Abuja to hold talks with President Goodluck Jonathan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gbenga Asiru, to avoid total closure of the High Commission in Canada.
Nigerian Tribune further gathered that Maduekwe’s decision was borne out of feelers that the High Commission might be shut down by Canadian officials if it defaulted on payment for services.
Sources confirmed that for embassies and high commissions with huge population of Nigerians, the stress could be less because they could still have some resources to handle their ways and means after paying local staff.
“The problems confronting Nigerian diplomats are many. Their salaries are delayed; they are often left to fend for themselves in foreign lands. The problem is further compounded by the fact that the embassies cannot afford to owe their local staff, whether Abuja releases money or not. The embassies have to pay salaries and for telephones, water and other services. Those are not negotiable. As for the foreign service staff, they are left on their own,” a source in the know said.
 It was gathered that the practice of delaying funds for the running of Nigerian embassies and high commissions across the world has been a long standing issue and that many times, the diplomats are owed five months salaries.
Sources said that the situation for Nigerian diplomats in Geneva and Switzerland has gone worse as many of them now have to get houses using Ghanaians as fronts.
“What happens is that the landlords no longer let out their houses to Nigerians because they default. So a Nigerian will have to gather his money, look for a Ghanaian who will pay for a house on his behalf and sign the agreement with the landlord before transferring the house to the Nigerian, who gave him the money. It is that bad,” the source said.
A source further said that many Nigerian diplomats had heaved a sigh of relief when the current Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Marthin Umhouibi, was appointed on the strength of the fact that he was formerly an ambassador in Europe and had experienced similar difficulties while in foreign service. The source, however, added that the situation has improved a bit but that there was only a reduction from five months arrears of salaries to two.
NigerianTribune

Adamawa Crisis: PDP Govs Accused of Plotting Tukur’s Removal

PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

By Chuks Okocha and Alex Enumah

Despite the appeal by the Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, that he erred with the dissolution of the executive of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some members of the national secretariat are still accusing him of mobilising other PDP governors against the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

Also efforts by Tukur to reconcile the warring factions in the Taraba State chapter of the PDP has hit a brick wall as the state Governor Danbaba Suntai, has failed to honour the invitation of the PDP national secretariat.

THISDAY gathered from party sources that there were moves by Nyako to get PDP governors to rally round him to force the Tukur-led National Working Committee (NNC) to reverse the dissolution of the Adamawa PDP executive council.

The Media Adviser to PDP Chairman, Eddie Adenirokun, who confirmed the plot to THISDAY, said the Tukur-led PDP should not be crucified for trying to enthrone discipline in the party.

According to Adenirokun, “It is a common fact to us in PDP that Nyako is mobilising other PDP governors against the national chairman.

“But let it be known that the sack of the Adamawa PDP executive was not a personal decision of Tukur. It was the NWC decision based on empirical fact of indiscipline against the Adamawa PDP executive.

“It is painful that the issue of enthroning discipline had to start from the home state of the national chairman but you don’t make an omelette without breaking an egg,” he said.

Tukur’s Media Adviser denied that the sack of the Adamawa PDP executive was because of the politics of 2015 where Tukur’s is believed to be nursing a governorship ambition.

Rather he said, “Tukur has a global image and therefore will not stoop so low to interfere in affairs of a state chapter. What took place was a decision of the NWC and not Tukur’s decision,” he said.

Meanwhile efforts to resolve the face-off between Suntai and Senators Aisha Alhassan (Taraba North) and Abubakar Tutare (Taraba Central) over non-conduct of congresses in the state which prompted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to write to the PDP requesting for fresh congresses in the state has suffered a setback.

In response to several complaints made by aggrieved PDP members led by Senators Alhassan and Tutare, the PDP deputy national secretary had on September 17 summoned Suntai and the two senators to a meeting with the NWC members in Tukur’s residence.

The national deputy secretary explained that the meeting scheduled for September 22 “was to seek ways of the various interests affecting the cohesion of the party in Taraba State.”

It was gathered that on the scheduled date, the two senators and some NWC members were in Tukur’s house for the meeting but the meeting had to be put off when the state governor sent a message to the national leaders of the party that he could not sit down at any meeting with the two senators in attendance.

The action of the governor has again prompted the two senators to fire another petition to the PDP national secretariat, insisting that the party must organise fresh congresses in the state to take over from the executive appointed by the governor as earlier directed by INEC.

Meanwhile, a gale of resignation of appointment is sweeping through executive committees in some wards and local government councils in the state in protest against the directives of Suntai to PDP members, instructing them not to associate with Alhassan and Tutare.

In one of the joint letters of mass resignation of the entire executive committee of Sarikin Dawaki ward in Jalingo, the party elders said they were quitting in protest against the suspension of the Ward Chairman, Alhaji Nuhu Musa Kasimu; the Women Leader, Aishatu Shuaibu and two others over alleged insubordination.

They said “the reason advanced by the party at the local government secretariat in Jalingo for suspending the Ward leaders is frivolous and vexatious as it was clearly stated in the letter summoning them to appear before a disciplinary panel that they violated the order passed across the state from the state secretariat that no executive should have any fellowship with Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan.”

While querying the rationale and constitutionality of the order not to associate with the senators who is a member of their party, they informed the state executive committee that the order was an infringement on their fundamental rights of freedom of association.

Meanwhile, Tukur has identified the lack of political will on the part of previous administrations in the country as the major impediments to the growth of the country’s industrial sector.

Tukur who lamented that Nigeria still import a lot of things that she is supposed to be exporting to other nations in spite of her being blessed like the developed countries of America, Europe and Asia, called for the building of stronger institutions that will help actualise the potentials of the nation.

The PDP Chairman was speaking yesterday with journalists during a tour of facilities and Award of Long Service at ABUMET Nigeria Limited, Abuja, where he commended both the staff and management of the organisation for being one of the few companies that have not only survived but has flourished when others are collapsing.

While recalling that the main objective why the company was established is to build a first class aluminium industry to meet the growing need of the Federal Capital Territory at the time, Tukur stated that: “From available records at my disposal, ABUMET has performed wonderfully in the areas of product acceptability by clients.

He however lamented that the uncontrolled importation of finish aluminium products from China at subsidized rate is a big challenge to manufacturers of aluminium in Nigeria.

The PDP Chairman, who also doubles as Chairman of ABUMET Nigeria Limited, while blaming the lack of will on the part of governments particularly regulatory agencies for failing to live up to their biddings, called for a proper education and reorientation of the people.

ThisDay

Suspected killers of UNIPORT student and ex-corper arrested in Port Harcourt

Just two days after Daily Post reported the brutal murder of three persons including a UNIPORT student and an ex-corps member, who passed out of the programme that same day and was believed to have served in the state, the Nigerian Army say they have arrested three of those who carried out the dastard act.
The men are suspected to be members of a six-man syndicate involved in last thursday’s assasination Thursday at Rumuchakara village in Choba community, the major host community of the University of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
Army Public Relations Officer, 2 Brigade/Sector Two Joint Task Force, Maj. Mike Etete, made the announcement while parading the suspects before newsmen on Sunday in Port Harcourt.
He said that the suspects, (named withheld), were arrested after a stop and search operation was carried out by the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Task Force at Rumuochara Village in Choba, near Aluu Community in the state.
He said, “Following the killing of three persons at Rumuochara Village in Choba on October 18, a manhunt was launched for the arrest of the gunmen.
“At about 1:45 a.m. this morning, troops of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Joint Task Force intercepted four gunmen at Choba Junction.
“An exchange of gunfire ensued between the soldiers and gunmen; consequently, one of the gunmen was killed instantly, one was injured and two others escaped with injuries. Our soldiers did not sustain any injury in the course of this operation.”
Mr. Etete added that after the gun battle, soldiers cordoned-off the area and apprehended two other suspects who allegedly came to support their gang members. He said the suspects were arrested while investigation revealed that the two suspects were supplying arms and ammunition to reinforce their gang members.
He named items recovered as three AK 47 rifles, 272 rounds of 7.2mm live ammunition and 16 magazines. Others include an ash coloured Toyota Avalon car with registration numbers Kano AG 320 MDG, four Nokia phones and one Blackberry phone and identification cards.
Etete called on the public and hospitals to report persons with gunshot wounds to security agencies in the state.
He declined attempt by reporters to speak with the suspects, stating that such could jeopardise ongoing investigations.
DailyPost

Refrain from Litigation: Senate President Warns Ondo PDP

By Taiwo Adisa

Chief Olusola Oke, PDP Candidate

SENATE President, David Mark, has asked the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the Ondo gubernatorial election to refrain from using litigations to distract the winner, Governor Olusegun Mimiko. Mark, who stated this in Quebec, Canada, where he was the leader of the Nigerian delegation to the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting, said the result of the election had confirmed that the wishes of the Ondo people had prevailed.
He said Nigerian politicians must start embracing the democratic culture, where the power of the people, as expressed through the ballot, was seen as supreme.
Mark, who congratulated Mimiko on working hard to secure the victory, said he was proud Nigerians relegated sentiments to vote for performance in office.
In a similar vein, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, in an interview, said the result of the election in Ondo had shown that the people appreciated performance.
According to him, reports on the ground before the election had shown that Mimiko had worked hard for the people in his first tenure and that it was only good the people of Ondo rewarded him with a second term in office.
“Looking at the figures, I think it’s a true reflection of the wishes of the Ondo people and I think it was a free, fair and credible election and having spoken to few friends back home, my personal advice is that losers should not get into any form of litigation at all.
“Let’s not waste time and resources. They must all come together now and work with Mimiko for the benefit of Ondo State and the people of Ondo State,” Ihedioha said.
He also commended the people for voting freely, saying that though his party, the PDP, lost, he was happy that the electoral process was free and fair.
LibertyReport

Guber Poll: Ondo PDP Rejects Results, Blames INEC, Security Agencies

Reacting through a press statement which was made available to journalists on Monday, the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} and the Olusola Oke/Saka Lawal Campaign Organisation has rejected the results of the October  20 Ondo State governorship election released by the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC}

The party also blamed the independent Electoral Commission and security agencies at all levels for allowing what it called “massive rigging and disenfranchisement of the electorates” during the election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, had on Sunday 21st of October declared Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party winner of the election, saying that he polled 260,199 votes. The Commission also declared that the candidates of the PDP and ACN, Chief Olusola Oke and Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu, polled 155,961 and 147,512 respectively.

The Olusola Oke/Saka Lawal Campaign Organisation which said that the result was regrettable, shameful and disgraceful to Nigeria added that it was and would remain unacceptable to the PDP as a political party and as a stakeholder.

Signed by its Director-General, Dr. Oluwadare Bada, the Campaign Organisation noted that the election was not only marred with irregularities and massive corruption but it has failed to reflect the true desire of the people of Ondo state who were looking forward to the election with high hope of bringing an end to brigandade, waste, corruption and rudderless leadership.

It went further to state that the result that was announced by INEC was a decimation of the people’s avowed march towards enthroning integrity, transparency, modesty, focus and action, adding that the outcome of the election as announced by the Electoral Commission was predetermined, predesigned and organized to be the way it came.

“We are convinced and we say this to the whole world that the factors to this eerie experience were well known to INEC, security forces, Labour Party and Ondo State government before hand. Sadly, both INEC and security agencies chose to ignore them” the statement reads in part.

On security arrangements, the Campaign Organization said that it was shameful that security agencies showed total partisanship and predetermined interest before and during the election, thereby negating there earlier words and promises to address the earlier subversive plans of the Labour Party and the state government that were discovered and reported by the opposition parties before the elections.

“It is sad that the massive rigging and disenfranchisement of the electorates took place in the rural areas whereas security was beefed up in the urban centres. We call for a total overhauling of the office of INEC in Ondo state as well as the state Command of the SSS, Police and the entire Army and Naval Operations in Ondo State”

The Campaign Organization also alleged that INEC refused to conduct elections in some Wards and Units in PDP’s strongholds, robbing the party of vital and massive votes and as well canceled many results for no reason, other than being won by the PDP, in the areas where alaections materials arrived after maximum delay.

The statement also said: “It is no longer news that INEC delayed the supply of election materials to the Local Governments, Wards and Units in our stronghold but did otherwise to the Labour Party’s comfort zones. For example, voting materials and INEC staff did not get to many Wards and Units in Ilaje Local Government, e,g, Ugbo Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and Mahin Wards 1 and 2 until afternoon when the time for accreditation was over”

“Same also happened in many places at Ese-Odo Local Government and many parts of Irele and Odigbo Local Government, all in the Southern Senatorial District”

Speaking further, the Olusola Oke/ Saka Lawal Campaign Organization alleged the Labour Party of deploying well over 10 Billion Naira of tax payers’ money to perpetrate itself in office at the dentriment of the beleaguered Ondo State people, stressing that money was freely deployed to buy votes at the polling units especially in the Central and Northern senatorial Districts.

LibertyReport