IPAC Condemns Ademola Adeleke Over Plan To Monetise Osun Governorship Poll

Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) of Osun State has expressed displeasure over a video trending online where the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), Ademola Adeleke, boasted his readiness to to deploy foreign currencies in prosecuting the July governorship poll.

IPAC in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Comrade Wale Adebayo and Secretary, Mr Tosin Odeyemi in Osogbo, the state capital, noted the video should be ignored and seen as empty boast.

‘It is laughable and every right thinking person in the state should ignore it’, the statement said.

The council, however, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC) to restrict political parties from inducing voters during the election.

‘Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should authorise security agents to bar politicians from moving vehicles near the polling booths as some of them use such vehicles to ferry cash to be shared to voters’, the statement added.

The council also advised the electoral body to put mechanisms in place to check sharing of money to voters during the July governorship election.

‘We vehemently reject vote-buying in whatever form during the governorship election’.

‘Money politics has had a very negative effect on political leadership in the country. Most people who would genuinely want to perform in office often cannot get into office because they lack resources needed for the ritual of money politics.'

The IPAC chairman, meanwhile asked the electorate to reject the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Ademola Adeleke, accusing that he had no clear cut policies to improve the economic fortunes of the state.

‘He has no clear cut ideas on what to do to improve the fortune of the state’.