LG POLLS: JUBILATION AS SENATOR AKINTUNDE SUPPORTS APC, CANDIDATES WITH N40M, DISTRIBUTES RICE TO OVER 3000 HOMES
Ahead of next week’s local government election in Oyo State, the lawmaker representing Oyo central in the senate, Dr. Yunus Akintunde has supported all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with forty million naira. This was just as Akintunde who chairs the senate committee on environment distributed rice and cash to over 3,000 households. This came few days after Christians and Muslims got similar gestures to celebrate Easter and Eid. The first-term senator who made this known when meeting candidates of the APC in his hometown of Oyo Sunday afternoon expressed confidence that the party will do well in the election. He, however, urged the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, to be fair and not dance to the tune of the ruling party in the state. Drawing applause from the stakeholders who were surprised by his gesture, the former works and transport commisioner in the state, revealed the 118 councillorship candidates in the senatorial district will get 11,8...