Ondo State government has bought brand new sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the state House of Assembly, a move interpreted as trying to break the ranks of the 16 lawmakers opposed to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.

In addition is said to be a promise of automatic ticket to parliament in next year elections made to some of the aggrieved lawmakers by the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

One of the sources said the governor had insisted that he would personally present the SUVs to each of the 26 lawmakers.

On presentation day, it was learnt that the lawmakers started to trickle into the Assembly Complex ostensibly to benefit before the expiration of their tenure in June next year because of the governor’s insistence to present the car personally to each of the willing lawmakers.

No fewer than 16 out of the 26 lawmakers, it was gathered, have been presented the official vehicles.

APC has promised to give automatic ticket to some of the aggrieved lawmakers ahead of the 2019 polls to further divide them.

But those who won the last primaries, and are not lawmakers, and their names already submitted to INEC have vowed not to let go of their tickets.

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