Osun voters have been advised against selling their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to any politician in order to rig the next governorship elections.
The call was made by the Osun State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Hon Soji Adagunodo and the party’s governorship flagbearer, Senator Ademola Adeleke.
According to the Director, Media and Publicity, Adeleke Governorship Campaign Organisation, Mr. Olawale Rasheed, the PDP chieftains said at Enuwa, Ile Ife, Osun State, that reports indicated that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was offering N10,000 per PVC.
They warned the people of the state to cherish their PVCs and use them against “oppressors.”
“Don’t sell your PVC. Collect their money and vote against them. It is our money,” Adagunodo charged the voters.
Adeleke, in his short speech said APC was not just buying PVCs but also importing foreign voters into the state.
“Be watchful of your neighbourhood. If you see strange faces imported to vote, alert security agencies,” the PDP candidate said.
While promising a new lease of life to Osun people, Adeleke appealed to voters to vote against the APC and other parties while fully supporting the PDP.
“Use your PVC to vote us into government. We will serve the people and not any exploiter. I will govern in the best interest of our people,” he said.
READ ALSO: APC’s N55m nomination Form: Democracy on Sale – Benue SDP Chieftain
Olawale, in his statement, also said hundreds of defectors from other parties had joined the PDP in the state to support the governorship ambition of Senator Adeleke.
Defectors from the Social Democratic Party, SDP, were led by Salami Rasheed who declared that a vote for SDP was a wasted one.
Mr. Benjamen Afariogun who led others from APC to PDP said: “We are the street foot boys. We refused to go to ADP. On the streets of Ile Ife, PDP will carry the day.”
The defectors were received into the party by the state chairman, the PDP candidate, the deputy governorship candidate, Prince Albert Adeogun, and Prof. Wale Ladipo among other leaders.
At Ilesa, the PDP leadership also recieved several defectors.