Politicians have taken vote buying to a different level after they made voters in Niger State to show their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and swear to vote for certain candidates before they were given buckets, spaghetti, clothes, and seasoning.
Politicians were said to have visited the homes of voters in the capital in Minna other places distributing clothes and food items but the recipients were told to swear they would vote for some politicians.
In Tunga area of Minna, one of the beneficiaries, Mrs Jamila Mohammed, told Daily Trust that she only got spaghetti.
“The cloth was just one yard per person. What would one do with one yard of cloth? It won’t be enough for even a little child. I collected spaghetti, but we had to even fight to get it because people were too many. If you see how women were fighting for spaghetti, it was surprising,” Mrs Jamila Mohammed, told Daily Trust.
