THE Ekiti State governorship election that held penultimate Saturday was not just a national disaster; it was also an international shame. It was everything an election should not be. Politicians were unabashedly dishing out money to electorate who unashamedly collected same to do the bidding of the politicians while security operatives conveniently looked the other way.
No less a medium than the BBC reported how Ekiti citizens scampered like chased hares to a particular place the Friday before the election to collect money meant to sway them to vote for a particular candidate. There were also reports of party agents paying voters who provided proofs of voting for their candidates. The two leading political parties in the contest; the PDP and the APC, were particularly guilty of this charade. So, the Ekiti election was not a superiority fight of ideas on how to improve the lot of…
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