Charles Oputa, a veteran Nigerian entertainment polymath and social activist, who is better known as Charly Boy, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of paying people to attend the party’s campaign rallies.
Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, the self-acclaimed Area Fada shared a video which captured a man in a vehicle giving out N1,000 each to those on board who were wearing APC caps and T-shirts.
In his caption to the post, Charly Boy accused the ruling party of crippling the nation’s economy, saying APC made Nigeria the “Poverty Capital of the World”.
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He wrote:
“APC paying money to rent a crowd for their rallies.
What a shame.
They first made the country the Poverty Capital of the World, and now they’re shamelessly renting crowds for their rallies openly.
He continued;
“Anyways, collect your money but wake up
You should use your power to serve the people, not Oppress them!! Free Aminu!!!”
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Watch the video below.
APC paying money to rent crowd for their rallies. What a shame. They first made the country the Poverty Capital of the World and now they're shamelessly renting crowds for their rallies openly.
Anyways, collect your money but wake up.
Der fathers. pic.twitter.com/I2asz6AoJJ— Charly Boy Area Fada 1 (@AreaFada1) November 29, 2022
This is coming days after Charly Boy predicted that there will be no election in 2023.
The ardent supporter of the Labour Party‘s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, expressed his pessimism in this interview on the likelihood that the political heavyweights holding the nation hostage for so long will not be willing to hand over control to Nigerians in the upcoming elections.
He had this to say, “There may be no election next year going by what I see.
I don’t think that these people who have their stronghold on the nation’s political space are willing to relinquish power to the people.”
