The media aide to the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, Sola Fasure, has accused the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party of inducing voters with cash.
Fasure, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in the State, was reacting to the claim by the PDP that cash has been flown into the state to induce voters in favour of the APC.
He, however, asked the PDP to provide evidence to prove its allegations.
Fasure told Punch on Friday that the PDP raised the allegation as a way of diverting attention from the alleged electoral fraud the party had perfected.
“The PDP and its candidate have been sending messages out to obtain account numbers of the people whose vote they want to buy. They are using this allegation to cover their own heinous and sinister practice of trying to induce voters,” he said.
“They are making allegations without evidence but we have evidence of them trying to induce voters.
“They are the ones actually sending messages and trying to induce these voters with cash.
“They have been obtaining bank accounts and it is all over the state. Everybody knows but they are using the press conference as a means to divert attention from them so that they can perpetuate that criminal activity of subverting the election and inducing voters.
“We are not giving out money to anybody; anyone who claims to have collected money from us should come out to the public and say it.
“We have the strategy of winning elections by going out to canvass for votes and they have the strategy of taking shortcut by paying to induce voters and to circumvent the electoral process. They have started inducing voters already but they will fail woefully.”
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