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General News of Monday, 5 December 2022

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Lashes for Dino Melaye for his post about Okupe mishandling N20m mobilisation fees for Oyo rally

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Dino Melaye, the Spokesperson of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to claims by a Chieftain of the Labour Party, Michal Ashade that the party used the money to mobilize the state’s party members at the presidential rally in Oyo state last month.

Dino's reaction comes off the back of public perception that person who organise rally's for former Anambra governor around the country are not motivated by financial incentives.

"Later, some go tell us na only APC and PDP dey mobilize people with money. No shishi ko...no shishi ni," Dino wrote when he shared the video of Ashade accusing Doyin Okupe, the party’s presidential campaign director, of mishandling a N20 million mobilization.

Ashade said the fee was allotted to the state chapter by the campaign council.

While appearing on ARISE TV on Saturday, Ashade said Okupe only gave N4 million out of the approved N20 million to mobilise state’s party members to the presidential rally in Oyo state last month.

He said the mishandling of the mobilisation fund was one of the reasons why the state chapter suspended Okupe from the party.

Speaking further on the development, Ashade said apart from the membership due rouse, Okupe has questions to answer over the Oyo rally mobilisation fund.

“Our grouse is not just the fact that he has been found wanting on his financial obligation as a member, we also highlighted certain deeds that occurred during the rally at Ibadan in which members in Ogun State were expected to be mobilised for that rally. And certain financial anomalies occurred which we highlighted there. And we have discovered that certain amounts of money were approved for the states by the campaign council and we are asking where are the funds,” Ashade said.

“It’s unfortunate maybe he didn’t know it will get to this, because I have a chat he sent me saying that he was personally paying the mobilization of members from Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, and Osun states for the Oyo state rally saying that there is no official amount approved. But, 20 million Naira was approved specifically for Ogun state to mobilise members.

“We estimated 200 buses for the members, and it was turned down. It was reduced to 100 buses and forwarded to him, but he still rejected it saying no, that there are no funds that he was personally funding it. He came up with an estimate of N5,195,000, saying that was what he could personally afford. But it was less than that. About four million was what was gathered.

“It’s so appalling that the budget we did, every member that goes there, a certain amount should be given to them, at least N5,000 as a token. He said no, N1,000 will be given. I said that is ridiculous. I, as a chairman of the party can not be in that position and be giving N1,000 to every member who left their home to Ibadan, and he said it’s for feeding.”

See how Nigerians reacted

stephlinax commented: "Show us evidence. Hear this, hear that. You post Video, is this your best evidence? You have passed this level. The good news is you and your principal won't win."

starbabajay commented: "It's not about what is given in the process of campaigning... It's the fact that APC and PDP has failed us woefully in the past.. and they should go and rest... OBI FOR PRESIDENT 2023"

lucky_aremu said: "I really do not even get the point of this post, so one man brought out about 5m from his personal pocket to pay for buses from Ogun state to oyo state and suggested that 1k should be given to each person for feeding and that automatically translates to we no da give shi shi to Mr Dino that’s a big low. When you guyz go low, we go higher. 2023 election belongs to the people"

tokonioki said: "Nonsense how can you pay people for rally even at that you cannot pay them … organic crowd we nor Dey give shishi to the mud .. all this politicians are the same thing"

emmy_young_official wrote: "All candidates are the same except sowore! Let’s be sincere, anyways I’m voting Atiku because I believe in him."

lanrethepro commented: "I am woken so when Apc gives people 5k it is bribery but when lp gives 5k it's logistics who is fooling who, organic crowd indeed , have most you even listened to candidates likes El hamza mustapha , sowore before you went to endorse the dullest of them all to be your candidate. Every politician lies but obi lies graduated from Harvard."



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