PDP plans to lure voters with expired rice, APC alleges

OSUN State All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned on alleged plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to lure the state’s residents and voters with expired bags of rice.

The party said  PDP chieftains in collaboration with the Nigerian Customs warehouse in Ikeja, Lagos have loaded trailers filled with thousands of bags of expired rice confiscated several months ago from smugglers.

The trailer loads of rice, according to APC Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, are meant for distribution to Osun voters.

The party said competent sources from the Customs revealed that the bags of rice were unsuitable for human consumption.

“Osun citizens should therefore be warned that their lives are at risk from PDP poisoned rice,” the party said.

The party added that it had warned citizens earlier of PDP’s boast that they would win the election with a bag of rice and at least N10,000 to each voter.

The APC noted that it was not clear what the PDP intended to do by bringing expired rice to repackage and distribute to Osun people.

“Osun people are not hungry and they will not sell their birthrights for stolen public money which the PDP want to distribute in towns and villages of Osun.

“Those who love their lives should be careful because the PDP will stop at nothing, including the distribution of poisoned rice to win election,” the statement added.