BRIBERY:Â The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has debunked allegations of bribery $80m peddled against him from the recently concluded primary elections in the party.
The party chairman spoke Friday night after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari.
Some aggrieved aspirants are accusing Mr Oshiohmole of collecting various sums in bribes to twist the primaries.
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Speculations are also gaining currency that he was last week interrogated by the Department of State Service (DSS) over the outcome of the recently conducted APC primaries.
An online media outfit which allegedly accused the APC chairman of collecting about $80 million in bribes, however, reported that Mr Oshiomhole had become a target after refusing $500,000 bribe cash from one of the aggrieved APC governors.
It reported that the affected governor had wanted the APC chairman to adopt his anointed governorship candidate.
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It was gathered that many godfathers and governorship candidates were desperate for tickets but Mr Oshiomhole stood his ground that he will not compromise party guidelines, it further stated.
But, Mr Oshiomhole, who spoke to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, described the allegations of corruption against him as reckless insinuation.
“No tree that will bear fruits that will grow in Sahara desert and the fact the publisher of Saharareporters himself is a presidential aspirant; we would soon find out the difference between Sahara and its reporters, and a green forest and its reporters.
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“The unfortunate thing here, however, is that people, who specialise in libels they take advantage of our peculiar judicial system.
“What is in the governorship? Before I became the governor I entered the witness box and I know after being governor I can still go back there one day. So I went there and I won the case. They awarded damages in my favour.
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“But by the time you want to check the process of the guy who libeled you and so on, he sells himself everything put together he could not compensate for by legal fee not to talk of really mitigating my paying as a result of the judgment,’’ he said.
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