Vote Buying: EFCC Should Arrest Okowa Now

Chairman of the APC Campaign Council in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, Comrade Mike Ibada has called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC to invite, question and arrest the Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa over his vote-buying spree ahead of the March 18 gubernatorial and house of assembly elections.

Speaking to newsmen in Udu on Friday morning, Comrade Ibada noted that with the N10,000.00 Governor Okowa sent to every teacher and civil servants in Delta State few days before March 11 earlier scheduled for the polls, the governor should be invited for questioning so he can explain what the money was meant for.

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‘’This is a governor who has not given a dime to any civil servant for almost 8 years in form of bonus or whatever. Suddenly after losing his Vice Presidential bid, in obvious desperation to secure the votes of civil servants for his stooge and PDP candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori, he has started crediting the accounts of all civil servants to obviously buy their votes in overt contravention of the rules of the game.

‘’The security agencies, DSS and EFCC should, as a matter of urgency, invite Okowa for questioning. He has started vote buying ahead of the polls. Some civil servants like the directors and permanent secretaries got as much as N50,000 each. The man has spend over N1billion naira to bribe civil servants to vote for PDP since his failed and ignoble vice presidential bid.

‘’I use this medium to call on civil servants and teachers to ignore the insult from Okowa and vote for the APC on March 18. After causing much pains to the civil servants for 8 years, he cannot bribe his way through with N10,000.00 to get support for his stooge. The best thing to do is to teach him a lesson he will never forget so that next time, civil servants will be respected by all. Your votes is much more than N10,000.00. Reject Okowa’s appeal and vote for the best candidate in the person of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’’, Mike Ibada added.