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She alleged that those who paid voters forced them to oaths to ensure they voted as agreed.
Speaking in the same vein, the Director General of the Oyetola Campaign Organization, Hon Ajibola Famurewa too narrated his harrowing experience before and after both the re-run and the proper election.
He said ‘ I learned a lesson that all these campaigns and all these things don’t work again. What an average Nigerian wants is money. If you have your money on the day of election, you can…because of the level of poverty.
And they introduced something that was very funny and scary as well, forcing people to take oaths. Like in my polling unit – people that I can say they are my people – that I can say any time, any day I can knock their doors and say come and vote for our party and they will vote because of the relationship. I went there on the day of election and they were moving back, saying, “I have collected money and I have taken oath , I don’t want to die.” That was my personal experience.
Oath taking became something very rampant and popular. People were taking oath freely for money – for N5,000 or N3,000 in some places.
So, that was what played out. It had nothing to do with the popularity of the government .
The Saturday election may not escape cash for votes as the trade money being dangled by the ruling APC government has been tagged another form of vote buying.
Traders are given N10000 as trade money which the opposition had tagged another cash for vote.
The alleged distribution of $322m Gen Sani Abacha loot released by the Swiss government to the poorest of the poor too was considered another cash inducement for vote.
From all indications, there’s no way cash for vote will not play a major role in Saturday’s election.
It is even alleged that both major parties have a war chest to distribute money for votes on election day.
Some claimed that both APC and PDP refused to spend money on publicity because cash distribution gives faster results on election day.
This is clearly an indication that this hard earned democracy may soon kiss the dust.