Osun govt’s palliative vote buying in disguise — APC alleges

Osun State section of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the authorities authorities of utilizing the disbursement of N20,000 palliatives to workers and different beneficiaries arsenic a strategy to power voters ahead of the August 15 governorship election.

In a connection issued successful Osogbo on Wednesday, the APC Campaign Council described the payments arsenic an alleged vote-buying scheme, insisting that the workout was politically motivated alternatively than a genuine payment initiative. 

The enactment called connected applicable authorities to scrutinise the disbursement.

The statement, signed by the Head of the APC Campaign Council’s Media and Publicity Committee, Oluremi Omowaiye, alleged that thousands of workers and different residents received N20,000 straight into their slope accounts lone days earlier the governorship poll.

According to Omowaiye, “the timing of the payments raised concerns implicit the volition down the exercise. The authorities is attempting to sway nationalist enactment with nationalist funds successful the build-up to the election.”

He alleged that National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving successful Osun, who ordinarily person N5,000 monthly enactment from the authorities government, besides received N20,000 during the latest disbursement.

The APC besides accused the medication of failing to code outstanding fiscal obligations to workers, including contributory pension remittances and cooperat...