Transparency International Nigeria has said the TraderMoni scheme, a collateral-free loan initiative targeted at petty traders and artisans as part of the National Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government, is a form of voter inducement.

The chairman of the anti-corruption organisation, Awwal Rafsanjani, who spoke on Lunchtime Politics, a programme of Channels Television, noted that the initiative was an “official use of public funds in the name of TraderMoni to actually induce voters.”
Rafsanjani noted that the TraderMoni scheme was not a programme that was “part and parcel of the manifesto of the ruling party and it is not in Nigerian constitution.”

He added, “It was not done three years ago. It was only started close to election time. So, the allegation by many Nigerians that this is clearly a case of vote buying using public funds goes contrary to our constitution and to having a free and fair election.
“That is why the Independent National Electoral Commission itself has seen this danger. The vote buying we are seeing has transformed to have more official recognition through the acts that unfortunately we are seeing performed by some of the agencies using public funds.

“This is despite the statement by the President that public funds will not be used for his re-election campaign. But this, unfortunately, is contrary to what Nigerians are seeing.”

The Federal Government had, however, argued that the TraderMoni was an empowerment initiative designed to meet the financing need of at least two million petty traders across the country.

But Rafsanjani said if the government had TraderMoni as a policy plan, it should have begun its implementation earlier than a few weeks to the elections.

He stated that, no matter how well-intentioned, implementing the scheme close the elections would give different signals to Nigerians across the federation, adding that if the government was sincere about the scheme, it would have started before the elections drew this close.

According to the TNI chairman, mixing election campaigns with “distribution of money” is ill-advised.
https://punchng.com/tradermoni-is-vote-buying-says-transparency-international/

"Transparency International Nigeria has said the TraderMoni scheme, a collateral-free loan initiative targeted at petty traders and artisans as part of the National Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government, is a form of voter inducement..."

No goverment have so much insulted the sensibility of Nigerians with overt lies, deceit & propaganda as the APC government.

This useless government thinks everyone is a zombie.How can a sitting VP left the critical issue of governance with the poor deplorable state of the Nigerian security, economy, healthcare delivery, cost of living and be obsessed with distributing a paltry 10k vote-buying Social intervention disguised as "tradermoni"?

See the voters PVC number they denied was never on the form. Why must the APC start this fraud 6months to a General election if not that there is a sinister intention?

Really? What is Obi doing in this picture? Vote selling I guess.

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Obviously


2015: Osinbajo nominated to be VP to Buhari and accepts!

"Ha, Pastor Prof. You have join bad gang!"


Plot twist


2019: Buhari retains VP Osinbajo

"Ha, Buhari, you have joined Badder gang!"



Does it not worry and astonish you that if you indeed agree that Buhari is an affliction that it is Pastor Prof and his machinery (not even Tinubu) that is propping him up, defending him at every turn? Sotay Sotay Sotay he begin dey answer question for am?

Arguably, Buhari won in 2015 more because Pastor Prof was VP. Now the same Pastor Prof that people voted to check Buhari is the one teaching an experienced *x*#"* like him bad habit?

Pastor Prof DID NOT change over night and is a MAJOR lynchpin (component) of the CHANGE SCAM!

P-A-S-T-O-R!!!!!!!!!!!


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Crystal clear ... vote buying it is. Disgusting to think its led by a Pastor from a church whose leader has never seen anything bad in this evil Cabalocracy led by a Sudanese Ahab

HOW BUHARI LOST THE IGBOS

You told them they are among the 5%,you treated them that way with your appointment,
not done yet,you mowed them down with overwhelming Army response in the name of Ops Python Dance,
killed many of them,
turned peaceful families to orphans,
Windows and some widowers and many childless.
Their businesses destroyed.
Then during campaign you come with your rotten body with huge smell and absent mind so twisted that even the devil would be scared of your level of hatred for them to say: "O year igbos, your military officers are not.professional, are not good, do not.merit being in the military and so I chose those from my family and closest village in the north who merit it because they form part of the 97% - that's their only qualification.
The igbo man's sin is nothing but for just being an igbo man who would not beg but would turn every grim situation to success so it pains you.
Buhari, you are indeed a fool and an evil that shouldn't befall any group of people.
We would to see you die and rotten for vulture to feast on after dog has eaten your head...

Imagine pastor involved in vote buying

Lol. How does empowering petty traders translate to buying votes? You don't even need Pvc to be eligible for tradermoni. Transparent media should go and sit down if they know nothing.

Is this empowering scheme not better than Jona looting us dry for more than 5yrs without giving us anything in return?



Canada is a developed country yet is suffering from this sweeping recession but you expect a developing country as Nigeria whose economy is oil dependent especially at a time oil is selling at a low $50 rate, not to be in recession?

If the stupid Jonathan hadn't looted us dry at a time oil was selling at $110 rate, if he had saved more as well as constructed major infrastructures, we wouldn't be suffering at this time oil is selling at $50 rate. Better still, if the klepto hadn't also looted our foreign reserve from $48b to $26b, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.

Despite earning 60% less than the previous regime, this admnistration has come up with several social, agricultural and infrastructural projects. Look at Lagos-Ibadan road and other roads being constructed, our new railway lines, new rice mills, cheap fertilizer production, Npower social schemes, tradermoni etc yet you expect us to vote in a useless party that destroyed our economy again?

Atiku, neva again.

livelymatilda22:
Really? What is Obi doing in this picture? Vote selling I guess.

Obi wasn't contesting for any position or name as VP candidate when that picture was taken

Same you posted the picture on January 26 last year , Obi was named running mate to Atiku 13th October 2018, below is evidence
https://www.nairaland.com/4312188/all-sudden-nobody-talking-herdsmen/1

Of course it is!
Why wait 3 months to election to start “dashing” out money?

Election malpractices noted by the world.

Muchechecheche

I've always said it!

World Bank says Nigerians live on less than a dollar a day and a whole V.P is moving round distributing that same dollar a day in the form of N10,000 trader money months to the election.

How does the giving people the same paltry amount that the world bank uses as a cutoff for poverty, lift people out of the same poverty



Why also is he giving them cash? Why not a cheque or direct deposit?

What kind of haphazard approach does this scheme employ anyways? You just go to a market, find so called traders and start giving them N10,000 cash?

Ridiculous!!!!

wow, they even collected their PVC number

Chai!

Can you imagine!

Just see how the useless Dullard called Buhari has succeeded in rubbishing the image of Prof Yemi Osinbanjo who is now known internationally as perpetrator of grand electoral malpractice ..One would have expected the so called professor of law to know better but instead in typical sycophant manner he jumped on the illegality just so his boss will see him as loyal .. Well I have always called it VoterMoni because that's actually what it is

Obviously

TraderMoni is vote buying

And to think that Osibanjo is fronting this scam
Smh

Dem don catch them o.

We already know that. There is nobody more fraudulent that Buhari and osinbade.

TheGreenLand:
SHUT UP

Zombie is so pained

livelymatilda22:
Really? What is Obi doing in this picture? Vote selling I guess.

Sharrap. That's not this election and you know it. He is just giving gift to hungry people from his pocket just like any one of us would.

Not like Osibanjo going from State to state dishing out 10k after requesting for PVCs

APC will be embarrassed cos they will be defeated

NaijaRoyalty:

Zombie is so pained

zombie is more pained while his whole laugh is stolen away.
I laugh at your miserable life.

Transparency international is corrupt

Simply said.

Lobatan!

Even osinbajo will agree with me that its vote buying. It's even sad that a pastor is caught in this dirty web.
Osinbajo was picked as vice to achieve many aim, but he was blind to see. Now he has to join the race.

Yes we know