Jide Ojo
“What we are doing is not election. It is money competition. The PDP started it by paying N3,000 into the accounts of civil servants and pensioners. I am a pensioner and I received an alert of N3,000 to vote for the PDP. I called the pension office to ask if my pension was now N3,000. They told me that it was meant for logistics to and fro, that we would meet on the field for the balance.”
– Abiodun Aluko, Accord Party governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti poll.
The July 14, 2018 Ekiti governorship election has come and gone with Dr. John Kayode Fayemi emerging victorious at the poll. I join well-meaning Nigerians across the world to congratulate him. There was a lot of tension ahead of the election given the fact that the state, nicknamed ‘Fountain of Knowledge’ and ‘Land of Honour’, was notorious for election-related violence. I was…
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