Badero-Olusola Mostfavoured Pupsy wrote; Almost Fifteen Million To Buy Forms for a Partys Congress In Ogun???? 236 Wards, 20 LG and 25 officers per ward. N2000 X 24 people = N48,000 Multiply by 236 Wards = N11,238,000 (Eleven Million, Two hundred and thirty eight thousand Naira) Ward Chairmen = N10,000 each N10,000 X 236 Wards = N2, 360,000 (Two Million, three hundred and sixty thousand) LG Chairmen = N25,000 each N25,000 X 20 LG = N500,000 Total money coughed out by force from the Ogun State Tax Payers = N14,098,000 (Fourteen Million and Ninety Eight Thousand Naira Only) All to finance a partys congress? How much was paid to bribe people to come to the congress? Who financed that too? We are in deep shit in this state. APC congress: Why I paid for candidates’ nominations –Amosun Ahead of the local government congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has justified why he paid the nomination fees of aspirants to various party positions at the wards and local governments in the state. Amosun spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting of the APC in Abeokuta, where he stressed that the measure was taken in the best interest and unity of the party. There are 236 wards and 20 local government areas in the state. At least, 26 offices in each ward were filled in last Saturday’s ward congresses, while 25 officers are due to be elected in each local government today. Based on the party’s guidelines for congresses, aspirants for ward chairman were required to pay N10,000 each to obtain nomination forms while aspirants for other offices were charged N2,000. Aspirants for local government chairmanship will pay N25,000 each while other offices will pay N10,000. New Telegraph gathered that the governor’s sponsorship deal had been generating disquiet within the state chapter of APC as aggrieved members claimed that his action was targeted at scheming them out of party positions. Already, the National Assembly Caucus of the party, whose members are believed to be loyalists of former Governor Olusegun Osoba, has continued to protest certain irregularities in the conduct of the ward congresses. The party’s Senators and House of Representatives members boycotted Thursday’s stakeholders’ meeting where members of the State Congress Committee (SCC) met with the governor, his deputy, Mr. Segun Adesegun, and party chieftains. But addressing the gathering of party chieftains, Amosun expressed optimism that the APC will retain the state in next elections, adding that the turnout for the ward congresses was an indication. He commended the leadership of the party at the national and state levels for the machinery put in place to ensure a credible exercise. He said: “For me as a leader and as the governor, I will do everything within my power to make sure that we come together. If not for that, why will I go and obtain forms? It is because I want us to unite and that’s why I said I would obtain form for everybody.
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