Ondo state governor, Olusegun Mimiko plans to use workers’ salary to prosecute Saturday’s House of Assembly election in the state.
The governor has been distributing money to politicians in the state since last week, in a desperate bid to control the majority in the state House of Assembly.
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Despite the humongous N1.6 billion he collected to prosecute the campaign for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan, as the South-West coordinator of the Jonathan/ Sambo ticket, Mimiko has borrowed about N500 million from the Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, OSOPADEC, in addition to civil servants’ salary, as resources to be committed to prosecute the April 11 election.
The governor, who had earlier threatened the state civil servants that if he loses control of the state House of Assembly, he will be left with no other option than to use their salary to bribe the Assembly to have his way, has been begging the civil servants not to finally disgrace him in Saturday’s poll, saying that he knew he has been partly disgraced with the outcome of the presidential election in the state.
National Mirror learnt that the governor has been having marathon meetings with the state civil servants and their leaders, where he has softened his hard stance posture and resorted to begging the civil servants to save him from imminent defeat.
He told them that the Ekiti State scenario will play out in Ondo State if the opposition takes control of the state House of Assembly in Saturday’s poll
Last week, some members of the PDP had signed an accord with the state leadership of the All Progressives Congress to work for the APC candidates in the Ondo state elections.
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