Government Ekpemupolo, generally known as Tompolo, has spent closely in a number of instructions this month. The PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, a group campaigning for President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election and led by Tompolo as grand patron, provided 26 automobiles every to Ondo and Gombe, 52 in all.
The automobiles have been handed over in Akure and Gombe on the inauguration of native authorities and ward coordinators. Kestin Pondi, managing director of Tantita Security Services, spoke for Tompolo and informed Ondo’s coordinators to show the state’s reported two million registered voters into votes for Tinubu.
Governors Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo and Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe welcomed the donation. In Ondo, Pondi pointed to gasoline availability, schooling interventions and paid salaries and pensions as achievements to promote to voters.
That isn’t the entire invoice. A separate account lists 25 automobiles for Taraba and extra for Yobe, a N10 billion pledge from Tantita to the Delta State Security Trust Fund at its launch in Asaba, and desks for the Nigeria Maritime University.
Where does the cash come from?
Tompolo’s Tantita Security Services holds a federal pipeline surveillance contract by way of NNPC Limited, first reported at about N48 billion a yr and described in a single account as having since expanded into a multi-trillion naira framework.
The studies don’t say whether or not contract income paid for the automobiles, however critics hyperlink the 2. Rival figures, together with Asari Dokubo, say pipeline cash is simply too concentrated, and regional youth platforms ask why oil-protection earnings fund marketing campaign fleets in northern states whereas host communities lack infrastructure.
Tompolo’s defenders, and the federal authorities, say the contract is strictly business and credit score Tantita with uncovering unlawful pipeline faucets, curbing crude bunkering and elevating each day export output.
The handover additionally put a safety contractor’s chief at a marketing campaign occasion: Pondi runs Tantita and spoke for Tompolo. So far, no reply from Tompolo to the criticism has been reported.
