Tackling Vote Buying Proactively …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
The Edo and Ondo off-cycle elections point to the unfortunate fact that the crisis of vote buying and selling keeps getting worse at every election. Despite the outcry of civil society and other observers, this societal malaise festers.
The media and civil society organisations that monitored both elections unanimously condemned the rampant buying and selling of votes, which ranged from as low as N5000 to as high as N30,000 per vote.
Sadly, the two major parties in both elections…
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