Not a few Nigerians, including local and international civil society groups have raised concerns over financial inducement for votes which characterized the July 14 gubernatorial election in Ekiti, especially by the two major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In the build up to the election, each party tried to outdo each other through campaign strategies in an attempt to ensure victory for their candidate. The parties were said to have nicknamed the vote buying strategies in different tags such as “as agreed” and “see and buy.”
A chieftain of one of the two dominant political parties, name withheld, who confided in our correspondent, said he gave N5000 to each voter that voted for his party. He, however, said the money was given after authenticating that it was true such a person had voted for his party. “We…
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