{"id":21366,"date":"2023-02-23T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/we-have-intel-politicians-will-buy-votes-in-kind-not-cash\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:03:30","slug":"we-have-intel-politicians-will-buy-votes-in-kind-not-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/we-have-intel-politicians-will-buy-votes-in-kind-not-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Intel Politicians Will Buy Votes In Kind, Not Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said some politicians are planning to buy votes by distributing items instead of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s The 2023 Verdict, amid the scarcity of the new naira notes experienced by Nigerians nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have intel that a lot of people have bought some items that they want [to use] to buy votes in kind not in cash. Some of these things are out there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoliticians are also Nigerians. We too have a way of doing our own things. We have our own experiences in this as well,\u201d Bawa said.<\/p>\n<p>He further urged Nigerians to cooperate with the anti-graft agency in its efforts to combat vote-buying in Saturday\u2019s Presidential and National Assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p>While urging the citizens to vote for people with integrity and ethical standard into elective positions, he noted that vote-buying is a serious issue that affects the future of Nigeria and its citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0Elections: EFCC Deploys Officers, Releases Hotlines, Eagle APP To Report Vote Buyers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the challenges the Commission is faced with regarding vote-buying, he said, \u201cI think the hurdle is if Nigerians are not buying into what we are doing. I think that is the biggest hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we are united on that front because the office of the citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the most powerful office in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can all come together to ensure that the people we are voting into various elective positions are people with proven integrity and of higher ethical standard. The only way you can determine that those have genuinely sold themselves in what they will do is when they get into office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the naira scarcity crisis, Bawa hinted some of the new naira notes were being hoarded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these monies that have been printed will all come out this Saturday after the election because some of them are hoarded and it will be distributed around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said some politicians are planning to buy votes by distributing items instead of cash. Bawa disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s The 2023 Verdict, amid the scarcity of the new naira notes experienced by Nigerians nationwide. \u201cWe have intel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Have Intel Politicians Will Buy Votes In Kind, Not Cash - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/we-have-intel-politicians-will-buy-votes-in-kind-not-cash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Have Intel Politicians Will Buy Votes In Kind, Not Cash - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said some politicians are planning to buy votes by distributing items instead of cash. 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