Politics
Vote Buying: PDP alleges Abiodun, APC making efforts to stall investigations
The Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the ruling All Progressive Party (APC) and the Nigeria Police Force are frustrating the ongoing investigation on vote-buying allegedly perpetrated by the ruling party across the state, during the last governorship election.
Consequent upon the March 18 governorship election held in the state, the candidate of the PDP, Oladipupo Adebutu, had alleged that the ruling party committed electoral malpractices in an attempt to rig him out.
In a press statement recently signed by the Ogun PDP chairman, Sikirulai Ogundele, and made available to journalists, the party said it is not oblivious of an alleged plot by the APC in connivance with the police to scuttle investigations.
“The Ogun State PDP is aware that All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State Chapter and its candidate at the March 18, 2023 Ogun gubernatorial election, Dapo Abiodun is putting unbearable pressure on the police aimed at intimidating and frustrating them in its ongoing investigation of the massive vote buying scheme perpetrated at the last Governorship and State Assembly election across Ogun State by Dapo Abiodun and APC coordinated by an Ijebu businessman with direct funding from the coffers of the Ogun State in a bid to stunt the investigation and to reveal the drain on Ogun State Public Finances used to fund Dapo Abiodun personal ambition to the detriment of the majority of indigenes of Ogun State. A waste of the collective patrimony of Ogun State.
“Dapo Abiodun and the APC are hereby warned to desist from acts geared at jeopardizing the ongoing investigation which will unravel and reveal who really indulged in voters’ inducement prior to and vote buying at the Ogun governorship election with a view of bringing the offenders to book. Ogun PDP is always ready to render its utmost help to the police’s investigation into allegations of vote buying during the 2023 Ogun State governorship election. So that perpetrators of electoral offences; thuggery, violence, destruction of voting materials, falsification of results, voters’ inducement and vote buying will be punished. And served as a lesson to all whose personal ambition will lead them on paths that compromise the integrity of our electoral process which will make our people lose faith in the sanctity of election. A great danger to our democracy.
“The hierarchy of the police and the men of the Nigerian Police Force who displayed stellar performance during the 2023 general election is advised to resist all pressure from Dapo Abiodun and APC and go to the root of the massive deployment of monies through direct cash payment to voters in Ogun State government envelopes and prepaid card funded with Ogun State monies to buy votes during the election through proxies. The police must recover the funds for the prepaid cards for payment into Ogun State government coffers.
“We are aware that to cover its track and divert attention from its compromise of the electoral process, the APC and Dapo Abiodun has been using the instrument of power at the State level and its leverage as the ruling party at the center to hound and harass the PDP with frivolous allegation of vote buying when they were the ones who indulged in massive vote buying with Ogun State Government monies amongst other acts of thuggery, ballot snatching and destruction, result falsification, etc.
“The Ogun PDP and the entire citizenry of Ogun State is watching keenly as the investigation unfolds. Ogun PDP will not hesitate to take necessary legal steps to ensure that the investigations into money laundry, voters’ inducement and vote buying at the Ogun State governorship election of March 18, 2023, is professionally investigated.
“We urge the police to remain steadfast and true to the powers donated to it by the constitution. The future of our democracy to the benefit of all remains application the even application of law to all no matter their party,their standing in society and whether of the ruling party or not. Nigerians are watching closely,” the statement reads.
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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