{"id":220952,"date":"2024-09-26T13:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/26\/some-lp-members-supporters-sold-their-votes-to-other-parties-olumide-akpata\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:13:41","slug":"some-lp-members-supporters-sold-their-votes-to-other-parties-olumide-akpata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/26\/some-lp-members-supporters-sold-their-votes-to-other-parties-olumide-akpata\/","title":{"rendered":"Some LP Members, Supporters Sold Their Votes To Other Parties \u2013 Olumide Akpata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has claimed that some members of his party sold their votes to other political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, declared All Progressive Congress\u2019 candidate, Monday Okpebholo as the winner, securing 291,667 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Asue Ighodalo of the PDP followed with 247,655 votes, while LP\u2019s candidate finished third with 22,763 votes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the election, Akpata who was featured in an interview on Channels TV, on Thursday, blamed his failure on poverty, stating that his supporters and even members of his party sold their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the situation as a tragedy, Akpata said that the decision of the electorates to go for cash was a big lesson he learned.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSome of my supporters stayed at home but a large number of them sold their votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Ogun: Teenager Dies During Argument While Playing Football Match, Suspect Arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened was a tragedy. Let us remove focus from Akpata and the Labour Party and interrogate our electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of my party sold their votes. It is something that we must look into closely. They decided to go for cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a big lesson to learn. I meant that if you think you know the people, you have to think again and look inward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of deprivation, poverty in the land has made it such that the people are unable to connect the dots between their current situation and those who are the cause of their situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-205692215\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has claimed that some members of his party sold their votes to other political parties. Recall that on Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, declared All Progressive Congress\u2019 candidate, Monday Okpebholo as the winner, securing 291,667 votes. Asue Ighodalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some LP Members, Supporters Sold Their Votes To Other Parties \u2013 Olumide Akpata - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/26\/some-lp-members-supporters-sold-their-votes-to-other-parties-olumide-akpata\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some LP Members, Supporters Sold Their Votes To Other Parties \u2013 Olumide Akpata - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has claimed that some members of his party sold their votes to other political parties. 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