Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu has said that many governors were jittery because the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has scuttled their vote-buying antics.
Odinkalu said this as a guest of Seun Okinbaloye on a Channels Television‘s programme.
The lawyer said that some governors have collected money that ought to have been used to develop their people and locked it up just to buy votes.
He said this while reacting to the suit filed by the Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara state governments before the Supreme Court to challenge the CBN policy.
Odinkalu said that people like the Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai “want to buy elections”.
“The president said in his own words that he wants to stop them from buying elections.
“That is why of all a sudden El-Rufai has joined the opposition with Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Masari (Katsina) and Ganduje (Kano), who was caught trousering dollars don’t forget,” the former NHRC boss added.
He said that Nigerians would continue to talk about these issues.
“Now, governors want to, first of all, impoverish people, take money, restrict it, and when it comes to elections, they use the same money that they should have used to advance their people’s interests, to buy elections. And they say we should all line up behind them,” Odinkalu said.
Tackling El-Rufai, he alleged that the Kaduna governor has never obeyed one court order.
“Today, he is going to Supreme Court. This is a man who chased a judge away from his residence and was celebrating it in his memoirs.
“This is a man, I’m quoting him in his memoirs, who bribed a former Chief Judge of the High Court (of the FCT), Justice (Lawal) Gumi.
“He said he bribed Justice Gumi who was an Old Boy of Barewa College like himself so that nobody would sue him while he was Minister of the FCT.”
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Prof. Chidi Odinkalu is serving it hot to APC Governors, including Ganduje and El-Rufai. Ganduje was trousering dollars while the other midget was bribing judges.
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