Tag: Vote-buying
Good governance: Vote buying robs voters – NOA
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Oyo State, says vote buying constitutes danger to democracy and robs people of their…
INEC uncovers plan to use food vendors for vote-buying
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had uncovered plans by some political actors to use food vendors around…
ICPC says vote buying is act of corruption
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Friday in Lagos described vote buying as an act…
PDP, master of vote-buying – Senator
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the master of vote buying and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, emerged…
2019 elections: Nigerians warned on dangers of vote buying
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a human rights activist, Mr Modibbo Bakari, has advised the electorate to desist from…
Vote-buying is virus that must be `killed’ – REC
Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ebonyi, has described vote-buying as “a virus ” capable of destroying Nigerian’s…
There was no dollar rain during our convention – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the claims of vote-buying at its national convention as false and completely unfounded.…
Vote buying and ‘Cash and Carry Democracy’
Prior to now, rigging devices such as ballot box snuffing and snatching, outright manipulation of election results as well as…
Osun Re-run: Police, INEC promise to monitor vote-buying
Mr Bello Ahmed, the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police in charge of the Osun governorship re-run election in Olede in…
INEC tasks monarchs to reject vote buying
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has implored the traditional rulers in Oke Ogun area of Oyo state to enjoin their…
Primaries: Yobe APC investigates alleged vote-buying by governorship aspirant
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe, says it is investigating allegation of vote-buying by a governorship aspirant ahead of…
Osun Guber: INEC’s ban on phones will reduce vote buying, selling – CSO
YIAGA Africa, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), said the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) ban on phones in voting booths…
Vote-buying is political corruption – Don
Prof Habu Fagge, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Bayero University Kano, has described vote-buying as a political…
Catholic Bishops advise Nigerians against vote-buying
Catholic Bishops have urged all registered voters to ensure that they are equipped with voter’s card and reject the illegal…
ICPC to partner INEC to curb vote-buying
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has expressed readiness to partner Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
Vote buying, threat to credible elections – German foundation
Dr Vladimir Kreck, the Resident Representative of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), a German foundation in Nigeria, says vote buying remains…
Osun Guber: INEC vows to prosecute vote-buying suspects
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will arrest and prosecute anyone that engages in vote-buying in the Sept.…
Osun 2018: Hand over vote buyers to police, SDP tells supporters
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has called on its supporters to hand over vote buyers to the police during the…
Osun Guber: INEC employs secret ballot to curb vote-buying
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it was working on secret balloting to curb vote-buying in the…
SERAP drags INEC to court over ‘failure to put Ekiti vote buyers on trial’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the commission’s “failure…
Orientation Agency charges lNEC to tackle vote buying
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has charged lNEC to put measures in place to curb vote buying in the upcoming…
Vote buying: INEC to re-design structures of polling units
Mr Mustapha Lecky, the South South Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the commission would redesign the structures of…
Vote buying: INEC pledges to re-administer polling units
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will re-administer its polling units to address the issue of…
Vote buying: INEC to reposition polling booths – REC
Polling booths are henceforth to be position in a way to make it difficult for people to see how voters…
Vote-Buying: High voter turn-out will frustrate it – REC
Prof. James Apam, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi, on Thursday urged voters in the country to always turn…
“Vote Buying”, new election rigging method in Nigeria – observer group
An election observer and monitoring group, Yiaga Africa, has described vote buying as a new way of elections rigging by…
Vote-buying: INEC seeks stakeholders’ support
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday urged stakeholders to give it the necessary support to curb vote-buying and…
Vote buying: Resolving Nigeria’s new political puzzle
In every election cycle since independence, the problem has been how to deal with issues relating to election management in…
Group says vote-buying biggest threat to Nigeria’s democracy
The Integrity Group (TIG) on Monday said that vote-buying was not only a criminal offence but the biggest threat to…
UK condemns vote-buying during Ekiti Polls
The UK has condemned the act of vote buying allegedly perpetrated during the July 14 gubernatorial elections in Ekiti State…