Nelly on her birthday |
There is
this unpalatable news spreading in the neighbourhood that Hon. Nelly Okafor,
top aide to Hon. Ganiyu Abiodun Johnson the elected House of Reps candidate for
Oshodi Isolo 11 has abandoned her colleagues in the struggle to clinch the
election victory.
The unsavory
gist says that the campaign group which helped in galvanizing the vote and
support of other ethnicities in the constituency is currently in disarray with
members scattered.
According to
the stories, immediately after Johnson’s House of Reps election was won, Hon.
Nelly dumped her field men, stopped picking her calls, got another phone line
and moved on. Her colleagues are alleging that Hon. Johnson gave her N20 million
to disburse to the group, but that she allegedly kept the cash all to herself.
Everywhere
one went, the story is same of how the Enugu state born fashion designer and
boutique owner is seemingly on her own enjoying the spoils of the election
alone allegedly abandoning even her P.A. and main political adviser, an Igbo red cap
chief from one of the South eastern states who deployed his entire life to her service before and
during the run up to the elections.
ECD learnt
that her hard working P.A. who abandoned his job to join the campaign train has
taken a job as a security officer at a new joint in the locality to make ends
meet while her political and private adviser is busy licking his wounds.
Said an
inside source “Nelly has abandoned all of us o. If anyone told me that Nelly
will use and dump us in the struggle, I will never believe it.”
Says another
who joined the campaign and marched across Ejigbo, Isolo, Ilasa and all over
Oshodi Isolo 11during the entire political campaigns “She has picked up a car
and stocked her boutique to the brim with new wears and changed her life
without even thinking of us. It is very unfortunate.”
Yet another
who spoke with ECD “I am not saying she should share her benefits with me but
at least we also need to benefit from our enormous work with her. Without the
people who supported her, I don’t think that she would have achieved much but
she has chosen to dump us like that. She even lavished the money in a mega
birthday party. But I leave her with God”.
When Nelly
was called for her reaction on the accusations of her changing lines and
blowing over N20m alone, she screamed aloud with a hearty laugh.
According to her “If they say I got N20m, I
can only say Amen to that. But let me say it is not everything one will respond
or react to. However I am used to
gossips” .
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