Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, started vote buying in Nigeria, the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has alleged.

Mr Oshiomhole stated this on Sunday where he featured on a Channels Television programme, Roadmap.

Vote buying, defined as a reward given to a person for voting in a particular way, is a corrupt election practice. It is a threat to the conduct of fair elections.

Although recorded in previous elections in the country, the loudest was witnessed in the recently conducted governorship election in Ekiti State with both the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) participating.



“I cannot be chairman of a party and celebrate anything that tends to distort the actual wishes of the electorate,” Oshiomhole said in the programme monitored by NGPOLITICS.

Mr Oshiomhole accusing Mr Jonathan said the former president introduced the electoral malpractice in Nigeria.

“But your recollection of history is not complete. If you were to really trace the history of vote buying it started with Jonathan’s second attempt (second term) with all due respect to him.

“In Edo State where I participated, I was still governor at the time. They turn out not just Naira, they turn out Dollars.

“President Jonathan started this massive vote buying in Nigeria and the Media must play back and do proper interview and proper investigation to discover the origin of vote buying,” he said.

When asked if his party participated in vote buying, the APC chairman said although he will not dismiss the allegation, he was not a party to such practise.

He expressed doubt that the candidate of the party, Kayode Fayemi, who he said was struggling to sustain his campaign had such money to throw around.

He said if there was need to point accusing fingers it should be to the incumbent State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who he alleged must have used the funds of the state to indulge in the illegal electoral act.

Accusing Fayose, Oshiomhole said: “I guess it was the guy who had access to Ekiti treasury which in this case was the PDP and the sitting governor who was so confident that he has all the resources.”

Oshiomhole said to eliminate vote buying the anti-corruption fight President Muhammadu Buhari must be supported.

“I am committed and agree absolutely with those who says we must do everything possible to eliminate vote buying.

“Going forward, the way to eliminate it is to support President Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign.

“If people of power no longer can take money freely from the treasury, I want to submit with all seriousness that those who labour to make money are not likely to buy votes,” he added.

The spokesman of the former president, Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, was not reachable for comments as at the time of publication.

Source: https://www.ngpolitics.com/jonathan-vote-buying-nigeria-oshiomhole/

it is now certain that oshomole is on oshogbo weed

see shallow reasonin abeg. if GEJ startd it must u continue it. u've just said dia is no difference btw APC & PDP

i thought their blame games has been transferred frm GEJ to sarki,

slivertongue:
see shallow reasonin abeg. if GEJ startd it must u continue it. u've just said dia is no difference btw APC & PDP

The man is so annoying!

Useless leaders from a useless party.

Every bad thing they do, they never repent... they always accuse someone else from the past of doing it so it should be okay for them to so so as well.

I thought they were changing the bad not compounding it?

By that statement Oshiomhole simply called APC a SCAM

Oh dear Lord! This guy is absolutely stupid!

Smh.. This man is crazy and so annoying!

No matter how intelligent you are, the moment you're accepted by these zombies, your brain cells dies off and replaced with kunu

Jonathan started it and your ministry is to sustain it abi. I never knew this man's heart is this ugly

Whether believable or not, one thing is absolutely certain: in this 4th republic:
all manners of rigging emanated from the PDP
subsequent variants of rigging were from the stable of PDP
therefore for rigging to be completely eliminated PDP must be cremated and the ashes buried in the high sea

Oshiomole jst dey shame himself recently

These Man Dey Smoke Ijebu Weed

Oshiomole is cursed

God save GEJ

What a statement. If he had nothing to say. Why not just keep quite. Now he has shown how foolish he is

Oshiomole's inability to impregnate his imported wife has so frustrated his life.

Henceforth, nobody should keep a rope, gun or cutlass near oshiomole.

This short brain again.

Tell us how you master will better the economy and move to arrest hired herdsmen killers and not just hurry up to arrest women.

HoluwarTohbar:
Oshiomole's inability to impregnate his imported wife has so frustrated his life.

Henceforth, nobody should keep a rope, gun or cutlass near oshiomole.

His wife is on the pills
Smart woman
Who wants a gorilla child ?
If APC loses she will head Back to Cape Verde with all her money

“If people of power no longer can take money freely from the treasury, I want to submit with all seriousness that those who labour to make money are not likely to buy votes,” he added.


Just like the N140m pension you awarded yourself from Edo state coffers? And how did you come about your mansion with artificial lake and esthetics that would put Jay-Z to shame? From activism?
His name says it all...Oshi-omoh-OLE!

Just like Buhari's lackeys are milking the country dry currently?
Babachir "grasscutter" Lawal,
Abba 'MTN and Hilux trucks' Kyari,
Abdulrashid 'pensions' Maina,
Yusuf 'okada' Buhari,
Kemi 'NYSC' Adeosun,
Bola 'alpha beta & visionscope' Tinubu,
Babatunde 'website & car park' Fashola,
Tukur 'Dubai mansions' Burutai,
Abubakar 'Abacha loot' Malami.

asokoromadam:

His wife is on the pills
Smart woman
Who wants a gorilla child ?
If APC loses she will head Back to Cape Verde with all her money

Then I support her actions jareh

Omeokachie:
“If people of power no longer can take money freely from the treasury, I want to submit with all seriousness that those who labour to make money are not likely to buy votes,” he added.


Just like the N140m pension you awarded yourself from Edo state coffers?

Just like Buhari's lackeys are milking the country dey currently?
Babachir "grasscutter" Lawal,
Abba 'MTN and Hilux trucks' Kyari,
Abdulrashid 'pensions' Maina,
Yusuf 'okada' Buhari,
Bola 'alpha beta & visionscope' Tinubu,
Babatunde 'website & car park' Fashola,
Tukur 'Dubai mansions' Burutai,
Abubakar 'Abacha loot' Malami.

What about Kingibe, Adeosun, Lair Mohammed and Aisha buhari who was fingered in forex round-tripping?

HoluwarTohbar:
What about Kingibe, Adeosun, Lair Mohammed and Aisha buhari who was fingered in forex round-tripping?

List is endless ma'am.

Oshomole that took vote buying to another level during the last Edo gubernatorial election that produced Obaseki.
Apc paid some voters 5k each while some where paid 3k each.
Oshomole is a culprit in this matter.

This APC factional chairman is stupid sha

] I don't know why oshiomole is so possed by GEJ that at every twist of his tongue,he calls GEJ but why?