The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Nentawe Yilwatda, has explained the promise of N10 million reward by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to councilors who deliver their wards.
Wike had promised that councilors who deliver their wards for President Bola Tinubu and other APC candidates in the 2027 general elections would receive N10 million.
The move has been generating reactions, with Yilwatda rising up in defence of his party and the FCT minister.
He stated that the gesture was not to bribe the councilors but to motivate them
Making the defense yesterday, while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, he inferred instead that the Wike promised N10 million was for mobilization.
“He was speaking to the FCT councilors in the forum, and I’m sure it’s addressing something about 62 or 60-something councillors in the FCT,”
“Which political party doesn’t release money for mobilisation? Which political party? So, tell me one. No, it’s not for votes. The same reward for you to deliver Tinubu in your ward,” rhetorically queried.
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“The money is not given before the election. It doesn’t matter? No, it matters. It matters because if the money is given after the election has been concluded and the winner has been declared and there’s nothing at stake again—if the court has proven and all the legal rules have been followed – that you legally deliver your ward by giving you N10 million,” he said.
The national chairman also spoke about the impending issue of who would likely become the Senate president after Godswill Akpabio.
“Let’s wait for the election first. I don’t have anybody in mind. The Senate will determine who they want to make the Senate President,” he said.
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