Blueprint NG
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state has tackled the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke, for boasting that he had acquired enough money in hard currencies to pursue the July 16 governorship election in the state.
The PDP candidate had during one of his campaign boasted that he had acquired naira, dollars, pounds and Euros for the election.
The PDP candidate said, “Osun people, you are the ones to decide. If it is about money, I have enough. I came with plenty money (hitting his pocket with his right hand). And it is not only naira, I came with dollars, pounds and Euro. This time around in Osun, it is fire for fire.”
The APC in a statement signed by the Director-General, Adegboyega Oyetola campaign council, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, Monday, described Adeleke’s boast as “absurd, unthinkable and totally unacceptable.”
The APC stated that Osun was not for sale to the highest bidder, maintaining that on daily basis, the PDP candidate is proving to the Osun electorate that he had nothing to offer.
“Osun people are not gullible. We have left them in no doubt of the quality our party, the APC and our Administration are made of, including the capacity of our candidate to deliver in the past three and half years. We have proved through our inclusive governance strategy that our people are our strength and that we do not take them for granted and we will never take them for granted. This explains why in spite of the way the 2018 election went, our administration began infrastructure intervention from Ede, the hometown of the PDP candidate…
