Massive corruption using state funds reported in Nigerian presidential race
By Global Information System

The corruption of the Nigerian political process is now in full swing: major payments are now being made to each of the delegates of the political parties, particularly the overwhelmingly large ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), who decide the primary elections which then select the party candidate for the presidential elections in 2011. Moreover, the incumbent President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is bribing PDP delegates out of Federal Government funds, making most of the party delegates wealthy enough to buy a new home with the bribery funds.
There are some three delegates for each local government council, and some of the 36 states (plus the Federal Territory of Abuja) have, for example, up to 40 or more local government bodies. The incumbent President's own state, Bayelsa, has only a few, but with each delegate being offered multiple cash payments of up to two-million naira (appr. $13,300) for his vote, the total bill runs into billions of naira. Significantly, each delegate is being bribed by multiple candidates, so each delegate could come out of the election process with enough cash to buy a small house or a car. Moreover, with delegates taking cash from multiple candidates, it is clear that some candidates will have paid out money for nothing.

"In the end," one candidate told GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs: "We can only hope that delegates will vote their conscience. We can't suggest that they refuse to take the money; everyone now is taking it. But they should, at the end of the day, vote their conscience."

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I was thinking they'd show something concrete to back the allegations.

This seems not reliable.

Contestants bribing delegates should have been the better Topic.