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I Shared N140m On Eve Of 2003 Election Despite Knowing I Won’t Win – Former Ogun Gov. Osoba

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Aremo Olusegun Osoba, the previous governor of Ogun State, has claimed that he was “rigged out of workplace” in the course of the 2003 governorship election.

On Wednesday, January 19, on the guide launch and sixtieth birthday celebration of his former Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Kayode Odunaro, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Osoba stated he obtained an intelligence report concerning the alleged rigging and was suggested to withdraw from the election, however he insisted on taking part.

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The veteran journalist, who ran for workplace on the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform however misplaced to Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP), additionally revealed that on the eve of the election, he distributed N140 million to voters regardless of receiving last-minute stories from safety brokers.

He additional acknowledged that regardless of the knowledge at his disposal, he refused to argue the election’s conclusion on the tribunal as a result of he wished to place the expertise behind him.

He stated;

“The 2003 election, I put it behind me a few years in the past. 2003 is bygone no matter occurred though, in his (Odunaro) guide he concluded that I refused to go to courtroom, sure I didn’t, as a result of the proof was an excessive amount of and he alluded to a number of the proof, however let’s neglect about all that, it has gone, it’s gone and the Ogun state individuals have had the possibility to match and distinction they usually have given their conclusions and that’s personal to all people.

“No one anticipated that the election would go the way in which it went, however I knew it is going to go the way in which it went as a result of Prof. Adu of FUNAAB who was the returning officer had the determine already ready.

“A number of the safety individuals had given me the determine of the end result that they had been going to announce and I knew, he was referring to me spending cash and a few individuals taking my cash to sleep in lodges, pocketed the cash, I knew as a result of in politics you need to study to have interaction in wasteful spending and you need to study to purchase every kind of lies, that’s all a part of politics.

“I knew that the election was concluded; I used to be warned, the electoral officer from Cross River had advised me after the Presidential election that, ‘Chief don’t contest the governorship, it’s concluded’, however I stated no.

“We shared N140million on the eve of the election and I knew it was a wasted cash, however I shared it as a result of if didn’t share it, they’ll say if I had not given them the cash, they might have gained.”

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