Sen. Olujimi Chides Buhari For Using Public Funds to Buy Voters
Biodun Olujimi, minority leader of the senate, alleged that the federal government is using the funds of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) to secure permanent voter cards ahead of the 2019 elections.
Olujimi said ‘I Stand With Buhari’ is written on the forms given to recipients of the SIP funds.
“Right now the funds are being used for political reasons and they are being dispensed and given freely to people who can bring up their PVCs and signed several copies. The issuants are now in charge,” she said.
“One of the forms is here with me and it is being disbursed by the special intervention body.
“This one has ‘I Stand With Buhari’ and it has a place where your PVC will be written with your gender and an attachment from access bank are money will be dispensed to. There is no corruption greater than people using our collective funds to maintain a political party….”
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