Several politicians and members of the All Progressives Congress openly canvassed for votes during the election, checks by PREMIUM TIMES showed.
At a polling unit in Asoro Primary School, Benin, an APC politician would squeeze N2,000 into the palm of a prospective voter before he casts his vote.
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At PU 001, Staff Training School, Benin, a fight almost broke out while the APC members were compiling a list and giving out money (a beneficiary said it was N10,000 each) to voters.
Yusuf Shamsudeen, an observer who had been to Esan North, Esan West, Etsako West, Etsako North, among others said he witnessed some of the vote-for-money incidents.
“One particular polling unit I visited in Esan West, we overhead one APC politician saying ‘vote for APC and collect N2,000,’” said Mr. Shamsudeen, Senior Programme Officer, at Centre for Democracy and Development.
“Similar cases happened in some other polling units in which you’ll see somebody who will be called ‘Chairman’ and immediately people vote they’ll be moving around with the chairman and they will just go to a particular corner.
“You can see politicians playing a major role in terms of influencing the voting pattern in most of these local governments that I visited today.”
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