10th NASS: APC Governors accuse two candidates of offering $1m for Speaker, Senate President positions

The leading candidates contesting for the speakership and senate president position for the 10th National Assembly have been accused of offering $1 million per vote to lawmakers.

According to Premium Times, two candidates vying for the two offices in the National Assembly are rumored to be planning to bribe their colleagues with $1 million per vote to get elected as speaker and Senate president.

This was made known in a memo sent to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect of the party on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The governors under the umbrella of the Progressives Governors' Forum claimed to have exposed the willingness of the lawmakers-elect to offer as high and between $500,000 and $1 million per vote to their colleagues as a bribe.

Although no names were mentioned by the governors, they suggested that the lawmakers involved in the alleged bribery are members of the ruling APC.

The memo said: “Indeed, it is being rumoured that one aspirant for the Senate Presidency and another for Speakership are willing to offer as much as $500,000 to $1 million per vote.

"Opposition party members of the National Assembly are being courted with the likelihood of the 2015 situation presenting itself if care is not taken."

While making their recommendation for zoning the governors said that the “over-investment” by the aspirants for the 10th National positions may make zoning impossible if action is not taken quickly.