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Edo 2020: Your ‘bullion vans’ cannot buy Edo, Ikimi tells Tinubu

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong by Adejayan Gbenga Gsong
September 17, 2020
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Ahead of the Saturday governorship election in Edo state, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom Ikimi, has send a message to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, saying that his cash-laden ‘bullion vans’ cannot buy the governorship election in the State.

Ikimi said this at the mega rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Tuesday.

The former minister said this while reacting to a video in which Tinubu accused Obaseki of not being a democrat and asked the people of the state to reject him at the polls.

Reacting to the video, Ikimi who was once a chieftain of the APC, said Tinubu did not have a lot of money in 1999 when Tinubu first became governor of Lagos State.

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He, therefore, asked Tinubu to reveal his source of income to Nigerians.

The former minister, while making reference to the bullion vans spotted on Tinubu’s premises during the run-up to the 2019 general elections, said the Edo State election would not be bought and warned Tinubu to steer clear of the state.

Ikimi said the video put out by Tinubu was evidence that the election was not between Governor Godwin Obaseki and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

Rather, the election was between Obaseki on the one hand and Tinubu and ex-Governor, Adams Oshiomhole on the other hand.

Speaking further while addressing a crowd, Ikimi said, “Bola Tinubu, tell me how much money you had in 1998/1999. Today, they say you are a billionaire. You carry money in trucks all over the place to disfigure democracy and you are preaching democracy.

“You carry money in bullion vans. Where are the bullion vans for Edo State? Have they arrived? Money cannot buy Edo State. Edo no be Lagos (sic).”

Ikimi said during the APC primary in Lagos State in 2018, then Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, was loved by many but Tinubu denied him the party ticket.

The former minister said despite entreaties from the President Muhammadu Buhari, and several party leaders and governors, Tinubu refused to listen.

“Let me tell you, what happened in 2019, Ambode was to contest. Everybody begged Bola Tinubu; President Buhari begged Bola Tinubu but he pushed the man away. Was that democracy?” he asked.

He advised the people of Edo State to vote for Obaseki on Saturday so that the people of Esan would produce the next governor after Obaseki may have completed his four years in 2024.

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