Elections: Vote buying, a looming monster
— 29th July 2018
“We will end up putting the wrong people in positions of authority… The long term effect on the people will be disastrous.”
Onyedika Agbedo; Olakunle Olafioye (Lagos); and Wole Balogun (Ado Ekiti)
The recently concluded Ekiti State governorship election has come and gone, but not without adding a new phraseology – ‘see and buy’ – into the electioneering process in the country.
Although many political analysts admitted that vote buying is not a new phenomenon in Nigerian politics, but they argued that the trend is getting out of hand and now stands as a major threat to the country’s democracy.
During the last governorship election in Ondo State from which Rotimi Akeredolu emerged as governor, the slogan that held sway was ‘vote and cook’, which was used to describe the…
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