Governorship candidate of Lagos State, running on the PDP platform, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has criticised the sharing of bags of rice to civil servants by his opponent from the APC, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Mr Agbaje said the rice included Sanwo’s party logo and sharing it can tamper with the neutrality of the civil service in the forthcoming polls.
His words, “We find the invitation and the rice gift appalling, opportunistic and illegal.
“In a political contest of the nature in which Sanwo-Olu and the rest of us are involved, he has been offered an undue advantage. An uneven playing field has been created. And this is condemnable and contemptible.
“The gesture goes against Nigeria’s bureaucratic statutes that forbid civil servants romancing politics. For crying out loud, there are still regulations preventing civil servants from involving in politics.
” That invitation and the rice gifts is a violation of those extant rules,”
“It is a shame to see civil servants struggling and hurting themselves just to get a small bag of Sanwo-Olu rice.
“But it is even more shameful to subject the crop of Nigeria’s middle-class to such an indignity.”
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