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Corruption: PDP Offered N5
million for me to Betray Buhari ….CPC Chairman
Written by Chuks Ehirim,
Abuja
The desperate moves
being made by leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party[PDP],to bury the facts about how the April 16,2011
Presidential election was rigged in favour of President Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan, especially in the South-East and South-South
geo-political zones, has been exposed by a leading member of the
opposition Congress for Progressive Change[CPC].
In the last few days,
there have been claims in the media, by some purported members
of the CPC from the two zones, that the April elections,
especially the Presidential election, were free and fair and
that the party has no reason to challenge the outcome of the
polls in the tribunals.
But speaking at a press
conference in Abuja organized by the North-Central zone of the
party last week, the party's Chairman in Edo State, Comrade
Godwin Erhahon, made it emphatically clear at the occasion, that
those dissociating themselves from the CPC legal battle against
President Jonathan, were actually paid by the PDP leaders, to
deceive the Nigerian public.
Comrade Erhahon who was
at the said press briefing in solidarity with his colleagues
from the North-Central, illustrated how leaders of PDP in the
South- South, offered him the sum of N5million to join a group
of persons who gathered at Ogba, Lagos State, in the name of CPC
Chairmen from the three geo-political zones in the south
[South-East, South-South and South-West], to denounce the party
for challenging the Presidential election result in court. The
fellows had argued that the elections were credible, free and
fair.
Reacting to that
however, Erhahon had this to say. ''Iam the leader of
South-South Chairmen of the CPC and I can tell you that just
like three weeks ago when this thing started, the press
conference that was held by some people at Ogba, in Lagos, was
to have held in Port Harcourt.''
''They called us and
said that Jonathan wanted us, as his brothers, to support PDP,
that we should not in any way expose him or what was done to
make him win. But we turned down their request and were able to
frustrate the meeting that was scheduled to hold at Presidential
Hotel, Port Haccourt.''
''There after, they came
back and said to me, the way things are going, they have come to
meet me again, they were going to pay N2.5million to any state
chairman who attends the meeting. I told them that even at
N2.5billion,l will not abandon Gen. Buhari.''
Erhahon who was a
former Chairman of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union
of Journalists, expressed shock that one Afolabi Ogunde was
recruited by the PDP, to pose as the chairman of CPC in Edo,
during the said press briefing of the purported party leaders in
Lagos. He accused the PDP of being afraid and jittery that the
CPC legal battle will expose their rigging of the April polls.
''The question l want to
ask is, if the PDP is not afraid, if they have nothing to hide,
if they are not afraid that exposing them at the tribunal will
put an end to this jamboree they are celebrating, why are they
buying members of CPC to come and sing false tunes. Why are they
afraid'', he queried.
He added that ''why are
they paying so much to get people to come and tell lies. When I
rejected their N2.5million offer, they said they would raise my
own fee to N5million but l told them we have passed that
stage''.
Though, Comrade
Erhahon refused to mention the name of those recruiting fake CPC
persons to speak for the party, our investigation shows that one
of them is a Presidential aide who hails from Delta State and
has as part of his brief, the Niger Delta crisis management. We
gathered also that a former Minister from Abia State who is
equally in the race for the job of the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation [SGF],is also one of those doing
the recruiting.
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