God Will Punish Anyone Who Takes My Gift Without Voting For Me In 2015, Senator Tells Constituency

Senator representing Adamawa South Senatorial
Zone, Alhaji Ahmed Barata has placed a curse on
gifts and donations disbursed to members of his
constituency in a bid to ensure all beneficiaries of
his empowerment programme vote for him at the
upcoming elections.
While making his donations, the senator made the
stunning utterance, informing anybody who was a
beneficiary of his gifts and still refused to vote for
him in the forthcoming 2015 general election would
be punished by God.
Irked by the statement, some members of his
constituency were said to have shunned the
empowerment package and quietly left the scene,
while some vowed they would collect his gift but
they would still not vote for him because his
constituency had benefited nothing from him.
Others who took his curse with a pinch of salt said if
God were to punish anybody, the senator would be
first on His list.
Speaking to newsmen, some of the senator
constituents who craved anonymity said the
empowerment package distributed by the senator
was a charade to give the impression that he was
popular in the constituency which he had
abandoned for a long time.
“The attempt by the senator to undertake this
charade is to atone for the sins he committed
against us, as he realises that 2015 is fast
approaching, and the only way he could make his
way back into reckoning was by offering us this
Greek gift,” one his constituents said.
While disbursing the donations, which included
grinding machines, sewing machines, hairdressing
equipment, and local irrigation equipment for dry
season farming, the senator said poverty must be
reduced to the barest minimum to allow peace
thrive in the area.
According to Barata, poverty is the root cause of all
evil acts in the society ranging from the
consumption of hard drugs to women and child
trafficking and other forms of criminal vices.
He said in his quest to eradicate poverty, he had
facilitated the employment of more than 35
graduates from all the nine local governments of his
constituency as well as providing a computer centre
in Jada and Numan Local Governments Areas.