The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday berated political parties for abandoning their agents during the 2019 General Elections.
The electoral body said some of the agents had to compromise because they were hungry.
Making this known, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Prof. Sam Egwu, said the cost of democracy in Nigeria is too high.
According to him: “Most political parties could not afford to even feed their agents during the 2019 General Elections.”
Prof. Egwu said in Minna at the 2019 General Elections Report Presentation organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Information Chapel that most of the political parties don’t know their manifestos and so did not have anything to offer.
The Resident Commissioner while disclosing that the INEC in Niger State uploaded all results to the INEC Headquarters within 72 hours after the elections, said: “Every information you want as regards the General Elections are readily available”.
“We should think of the costings for elections in Nigeria.
“It is a very big issue; we put so much in the elections, so much that we usually don’t have enough left for service delivery.
“The cost of printing ballot paper is too much and almost equivalent to that of printing money.
“We pay so much because of lack of trust.
“We need to be transparent and open so that the people can trust us.
“No democracy can thrive without the middle class.”
Furthermore, Egwu lambasted the attitude of most politicians who believe they can always buy their way, adding: “Politicians are very terrible and desperate.
“They want to pay for everything.
“They don’t want to follow the due and right process.”
Presenting the report, the initiator, Comrade Mohammed Mohammed, said: “Some of the Political Party Agents complained that they didn’t have any form of synergy with their parties.
“They need capacity building, monitoring and most of them lacked knowledge of elections.”
Also in his remarks, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Danjuma Salau, called for a cut down in the cost of elections and governance in the country.
According to Salau: “The interest of the country must be first in our hearts; the cost of elections is very vital, it should be cut down.
“We should consider that some things are not necessary.
“Why should we be printing our ballot papers abroad when the cost is too high?
“We can also reduce the cost of governance so that the masses can also benefit in terms of development.
“When there is trust, there won’t be need for vote buying.”

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/05/2019-elections-why-agents-of-some.html

Like That.....

......most of the political parties don’t know their manifestos and so did not have anything to offer.

That is so sickening!

The electoral body said some of the agents had to compromise because they were hungry.

Dem dem.....anevachop agents!

Hnmmmmm

INEC itself is compromised

So what fact does this add up to

agents are after money jor

Politicians are very terrible and desperate.
“They want to pay for everything.

It's just a pity, Bribery has become a way of life here in Nigeria.. even the people that would vote, ask for bribe.

Its all about the money

Have stopped voting manually until you introduced e-voting

A drastic cut in cost of governance especially the remuneration of public office holders will demystify elections and make them less competitive. People go there not to serve but to amass wealth at the expense of the country. So far as politicians turn billionaires overnight just because they won elections, cut-throat measures would obtain. The first step in sanitizing elections is in unattractive remunerations.

Nigerian and expensive democracy

Story story

Seems no one saw that part where he said election results were uploaded after the elections.

We all know the truth but what can anybody do? Tribunal? Shit!

The Resident Commissioner while disclosing that the INEC in Niger State uploaded all results to the INEC Headquarters within 72 hours after the elections, said: “Every information you want as regards the General Elections are readily available”.

Uploaded results, or conveyed results? I thought they insisted that results were manually transmitted?
Izooorite

Yankiss:
A drastic cut in cost of governance especially the remuneration of public office holders will demystify elections and make them less competitive. People go there not to serve but to amass wealth at the expense of the country. So far as politicians turn billionaires overnight just because they won elections, cut-throat measures would obtain. The first step in sanitizing elections is in unattractive remunerations.

The only problem is that the only people that can take that decision are the politicians themselves.
Now who go gree cut their salary by themselves?? Especially when they have spent so much money to get there.
That's why politics cannot get better anytime soon.

DonX001:

The only problem is that the only people that can take that decision are the politicians themselves.
Now who go gree cut their salary by themselves?? Especially when they have spent so much money to get there.
That's why politics cannot get better anytime soon.

You are right but mass revolution can bring about that.

The Agents collects money from there party and connive with other agents to work for the highest bidder in the just concluded elections. E-voting will be the best option where people will sit at the comfort of there homes and vote there choice candidates.

INEC must be very st*p*d to tell us this trash. So logically they have accepted their was compromise in the election and they want us to believe that party agents are now incharge of elections not them (inec). Or are they telling us that party agents compromised to Inec who helped rigged for other political parties Or party agents compromised to other party agents who Inec compromised on their behalf?

Ok
On what ground did INEC and it's official compromised?