{"id":219612,"date":"2024-09-21T23:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/politicians-bought-votes-with-bread-n5000-at-edo-pus-csos\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T23:45:44","slug":"politicians-bought-votes-with-bread-n5000-at-edo-pus-csos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/politicians-bought-votes-with-bread-n5000-at-edo-pus-csos\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Bought Votes With Bread, N5,000 At Edo PUs \u2014 CSOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, and the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, NCSSR, have expressed disappointment at the conduct of the Edo Governorship Election.<\/p>\n<p>The CSOs alleged that politicians openly bought votes from electorates for as low as N5000 and a loaf of bread.<\/p>\n<p>The Group made the disclosure in a statement co-signed by Yunusa Z. Ya\u2019u, Mimidoo Achakpa and Franklin Oloniju, on Saturday, saying that in some cases, voters were induced with food items.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cSituation Room observers reported widespread instances of blatant vote buying and selling across several polling units, despite the huge presence of security personnel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0#EdoDecides: \u201cAPC, PDP Party Agents Bribing Voters With N10,000\u2033 \u2013 YIAGA Alleges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe price of votes ranged from \u20a65,000 to \u20a610,000 per voter in several locations, including PU08 and 09 Ward 2, Owan-East LGA; PU 02 Ward 2, Etsako-West LGA; and several polling units in Egor, Oredo and Owan-West LGAs. In some cases, voters were also induced with food items such as bread.<\/p>\n<p>The group also commended security agents over the arrest of the alleged two vote buyers in George Idah Primary School, Ward 2, Oredo Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that the Situation Room is made up of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) including Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), CLEEN Foundation, Action Aid Nigeria, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa), YIAGA Africa, are TAF Africa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1196998378\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, and the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, NCSSR, have expressed disappointment at the conduct of the Edo Governorship Election. 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