Tag: Vote Buying
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2023: INEC to track campaign finances, tackle vote buying
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will work with relevant stakeholders to track campaign finances, vote buying and other anomalies before, during and after the general elections.
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Osun guber election: Police denounce vote buying as EFCC storms polling units
The police say they have yet to receive reports of violence or vote-buying in Saturday’s Osun governorship election. Mr Johnson Kokumo, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) said this after a visit to ward 5, unit 5 Salvation Army alekuwodo polling unit in Osogbo.
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Time to License the Vote Trade – By Chidi Amuta
The recent presidential nomination primaries of the two big parties and the just concluded Ekiti state governorship elections are united by a paradox. In both, Nigerian democracy recorded some dubious progress. An orderly and fairly credible electoral processes seems to have finally evolved. Correspondingly, however, the monetization of the electoral process hit the highest peak…
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PDP alleges vote buying in ongoing Ekiti guber election
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of vote buying in the ongoing Ekiti State Governorship election. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the PDP shared a photo via its official Facebook page of Abiodun Oyebanji, the APC Gubernatorial Candidate in the ongoing election allegedly giving money to an electorate.
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Ekiti election: Suspected vote buyers dispersed as voters decry non-inclusion of stamp pads in election materials
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have dispersed a group of residents allegedly being bribed at Mobil filling station, opposite St. Michael’s School in Ajilosun area of Ado-Ekiti. A correspondent, who monitored voting across the state, observed a large crowd being dispersed by a team of NSCDC operatives, led by acting Deputy Commandant, Haruna…
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Deputy Governor denies allegation of vote buying at Ondo State’s bye-election
Ondo State’s deputy governor, Mr Lucky Ayedatiwa, has denied allegations of vote buying at Saturday’s Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency bye-election.
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CDD condemns vote-buying in some polling centres in FCT area council polls
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has decried alleged vote-buying during the Saturday’s area council polls in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Director of CDD, Idayat Hassan,made this known in a preliminary statement on the conduct of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. CDD deployed observers to monitor…