An anti-corruption advocacy group, Corruption, Not In My Country, has said there was widespread buying of votes during the Ekiti gubernatorial election held on July 14.
The group’s executive director, Akin Fadeyi, stated that the Ekiti poll has raised doubts about the forthcoming 2019 election.
He said there were reports that party agents of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) handed out cash to Ekiti electorates during the poll, The Cable reports.

Votes were sold for prices ranging between N3000 and N5000. The election that should produce a good leader in a state so endowed with intellectual human resources was blighted as it turned out to be a selection of the higher bidder,” the group said.

“The sad incident, well documented by international and local media are in video footages and prints and have become accessible to the whole world. This has placed us on the spotlight as the laughing stock of the global community and has indeed shown how uncommitted we are to advancing and deepening our democratic processes.

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