Some lawmakers in the Kwara State House of Assembly, including the Speaker, Ali Ahmad, have denied financial inducement for their recent defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The lawmakers, numbering 23 were alleged to have collected N15 million each to defect from the All Progressives Congress, APC to PDP on August 1.
NAN reports that the lawmakers on Tuesday at plenary denied being induced with money for their decision to quit the APC.
Each of the defected lawmakers, in their defence, described the allegation as unfounded and “a calculated attempt to tarnish their names.”
They said that no individual or group gave them N15 million as bribe prior to their August 1 defection to the PDP.
They accused the only APC lawmaker in the house, Saheed Popoola, as being responsible for the alleged rumour on social media.
The lawmakers claimed that their “defection to PDP was purely on personal conviction devoid of any financial inducement.”
However, Popoola (APC – Olomu-Balogun) in his reaction, said he did not speak with any media on the alleged N15 million bribe.
Popoola refuted the claim by his colleagues of being the author of the alleged rumour, and challenged them to produce evidence or testimonies against him.
Concluding debate on the matter, the Speaker, Ahmad, urged his fellow Speakers in other states to resist the temptation of declaring vacant, seats of defectors in their respective states.
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