{"id":59493,"date":"2018-11-08T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59493"},"modified":"2018-11-08T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:34:25","slug":"2019-how-buhari-led-apc-govt-is-using-osinbajo-to-buy-votes-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59493","title":{"rendered":"2019: How Buhari led APC govt is using Osinbajo to buy votes &#8211; PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Osinbajo.jpeg\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"c6c08322-5795-4c47-9456-9f3d39820414\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Lagos State chapter, has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, government was buying votes ahead of the 2019 election.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP described the N10,000 Trader Moni as an inducement.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, PDP accused the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of going round the country, with his recent being a visit to some markets in Lagos, doling out N10,000 cash to traders.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP stated that the Trader Moni empowerment scheme was \u201ca clear action of pre-election vote-buying with the intent of buying the conscience of the traders to vote the APC in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also described Osinbajo\u2019s visit to Afrika Shrine as \u201can obvious manifestation of desperation and jitters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no doubt that Lagosians will not vote the APC in 2019,\u201d the statement read adding that traders could collect the money but they should vote their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>PDP also reacted to explanation by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, that he was not funding Buhari\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP alleged that Buhari gave Fashola three ministerial portfolios because the former Lagos governor funded APC presidential campaign in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one reason the President put Fashola, a lawyer, in charge of three hurriedly harmonised engineering ministries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo wonder the three sectors he is in charge of have recorded very abysmal performances,\u201d the party fumed.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Lagos State chapter, has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, government was buying votes ahead of the 2019 election. The PDP described the N10,000 Trader Moni as an inducement. In a statement on Wednesday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, PDP accused the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41,4482,58],"class_list":["post-59493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-buhari","tag-osibanjo","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}