OSUN ELECTION: NEW PLANS TO BUY VOTERS UNCOVERED
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-By Joseph Omoniyi
A coalition of civil rights organizations in Nigeria under the aegis of Transition Monitorin Group, TMG, said it had alerted the police over plans by some politicians to induce voters with money,food stuff, and gifts.
The Chairperson of the group, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, who made this known in a statement on Thursday, said, TMG’s independent investigations revealed that, politicians had embarked on the distribution of money, food items and gifts in 12 Local Government Areas of the state, with the aim of inducing the indigenes to vote in their favour.
“In the build-up to the September 22, 2018 governorship election in Osun, TMG has received reports of distribution of money, food items and gifts by politicians at Boripe, Atakumosa East, Atakumosa West, Ife North, Ife South, Obokun, Ede North, Egbedore, Boluwaduro, Ila, Irepodun, Iwo Local Government Areas of the state.
“These ugly trends are dangerous recipe against the credibility of the electoral process. The rampant case of voter inducements does not portray the electoral process in good light as it creates serious questions on the integrity of the process and legitimacy of its outcome,” she revealed.
She further said, “As part of its commitment to promoting free, fair as well as effective and accountable management of the election, TMG will observe the 2018 Osun State governorship election. TMG in collaboration with its members will deploy 300 citizen observers across the 30 LGAs in the state to observe the election day processes and conduct of the security and other stakeholders during the election”.
She thereby, called on security agencies and election monitoring groups to work towards stopping the processes of voters’ inducement in the state, she advised that there should be adequate deployment of security personnel to maintain law and order at polling units, while at the same time ensuring the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of electoral offences.
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