EXCLUSIVE: PDP chieftain in trouble as police uncover shocking N2billion vote-buying scheme
has been indicted by the Nigeria Police Force for money laundering and vote-buying during the last general elections, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report.
Mr Adebutu eventually lost the election after polling 262, 383 votes to return second behind Governor Dapo Abiodun of the APC who polled 276, 298 votes. He has however filed a petition before the election petition tribunal to challenge Mr Abiodun’s return.On 14 May, PREMIUM TIMES published a report in which Mr Adebutu claimed he fled Nigeria over threats to his life.
After taking statements from the suspects, the investigation team said it also spoke with some POS operators who were also arrested, officials of Verve – the issuers of the credit cards – and Zenith Bank from which vaults the cash were to be drawn. According to the report, Mr Adebutu ordered the cards on 27 February, 2023, and they were loaded with cash credit on 16 and 17 March 2023 ahead of the 18 March governorship election in which he was a candidate.
“Secondly, a careful observation of the statements of account/transaction history of the POS operators, reveals that a lot of funds withdrawals were done on 18th and 19th March, 2023 which had the description ‘BANK CARD’ as stated above and also has the same band number ‘506109’ which is uniquely assigned to Zenith Bank.
Tunde Oladunjoye, the spokesperson of the APC in the state, confirmed that the party wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police over alleged vote-buying by the PDP in the governorship election. Government officials confirmed that one of the aims of the CBN naira redesign policy was to prevent vote-buying at the generalelections, a phenomenon that had blighted off-season governorship elections in Anambra, Kogi, Edo, Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states.
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