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    CONSEQUENCES OF VOTE BUYING IN NIGERIA

    For every Nigeria citizens

    Peace be unto us
    CONTENTS

    Foreword

    Poems and citation

    1. What is vote buying


     Definition of vote buying
     Consequences of vote buying
    2. Concept of vote buying
     Perception behind vote buying
     What causes vote buying
    3. Theories of vote buying
    4. Why we must get through
    5. We must all do the needful

    A last love,
    Proper in conclusion

    Should snip the wings

    Forbidding further flight

    But I, now

    Reft of that confusion

    And lifted up

    And speeding the light

    Maya Angelou "Recovery"

    WE MUST GET THROUGH


    Vote buying is a disaster,

    Growing wings in Nigeria

    Who is to blame for our fate?

    Is it leader or follower?

    Vote buying is deteriorating the state

    Put people in abject poverty

    Scorching sun is destroying the flower

    The beauty of giant is fading away

    Detest from vote buying

    Voters should hold to their right

    You should extricate yourself from bondage

    And bounce back to become freedom

    Politicians use not our disadvantages,

    To be their advantages .

    We should break away from bondage,

    And cross the bridge.

    We should all ignore the polular saying

    "Vote and cook a pot of stew"

    Politicians are few


    We should liberate ourselves from their wooing

    Because our hope is in our hands.

    IT IS ALL OUR FAULT


    Why are we all yawning for better tommorow

    When we are all neglecting the needful

    The precendence and antecedence

    Theories and assumptions

    Can never solve our problems.

    Stop being sentiment

    Vote for your conscience

    Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba

    Muslim, Christain or Traditionalist

    Can never solve our problems

    We should all embrace tranquility,

    And admire unity.

    We should all engages in peace

    Admonish and adore others

    Because tolerance can only solve our problems


    Foreword

    Vote-buying is a contentious issue in contemporary discourse on the


    sustainability of democratic development in Nigeria. Vote buying is a disastrous
    act that should not be accommodate in any nation in the world. This menace is
    gradually crippling electoral processes and undermining the efforts of the
    electoral umpire in conducting competitive, free and fair, credible, and
    transparency elections for the sustenance of democratic development in
    Nigeria. therefore, investigates the effects of vote-buying on the sustainability
    of democratic development and good governance in Nigeria. It argues that vote-
    buying compromises the well-being of the populace by entrenching bad
    governance and poor service delivery

    This disastrous act is contaminating and obstructing the glory of a great


    nation Nigeria. A noble politician can not win or secure position of power, the
    influence of those buying vote will obstruct him or her. The act of vote buying
    leads the nation to a very unavoidable circumstance found herself. However,
    Those in power are deliberately impeovised people of the nation with poverty
    knowing fully that a hunger man would deliberately doing anything for money
    thinking that aleast he will get food to eat. Furthermore, They are providing
    amunitions for tout and assasins because they want to use their to win an
    election whereas they could not buy enough amunitions for the arm forces and
    they could not pay their allowances. For every police in Nigeria, they believe
    they have to collect bribe before they can also cater for their family and buy
    another uniform.
    Furthermore, maybe the politicains are happy because of the poverty and the
    rate of unemployment in the country. The body language of the government did
    not seem like they are concerned about vote buying vote selling in Nigeria.
    There are some cases in Nigeria election especially the last Osun Gubernatorial
    election, some political party were given ten thousand naira (10,000#) naira to
    a single voter because they know they can not win election without buying
    electorate consience, whereby the electorate did believe even if he did not
    collected money from those politicians they will do their minds, that happen
    because of the attitude of government.

    However, People should not imbibe with the act of selling their vote or
    collecting money before casting their vote. Vote is a citizens responsibility act to
    choose their leaders that will represent their interest. Howsoever, the
    politicians must act according to their promise, if we all must a better Nigeria.

    We all can make a change, a change we have been clamouring for.

    DEFINITION OF VOTE AND BUY


    Vote means the official choice that you make in an election, meeting, etc., by

    casting a ballot either by direct or indirect means.

    Buy means to get something by paying money for it.

    If we now combine "vote" and "buy" together it means "vote" casting your vote

    which is your constitutional right that is legitimate or officially but "buy" you

    exchange it for money i.e. you sell your vote for money.

    What is vote buying

    Vote Buying is define as a simple economic transaction: parties and

    candidates distribute materials or benefits to individual or citizens in exchange

    for support at the ballot box. Vote-buying, otherwise known as "voters-

    inducement", "vote-trading", "vote-selling" or "money exchangehand politics"

    has become a recurring feature in Nigeria electoral process. Vote buying can

    also means the act of using money to induce or engage the voters or electorates

    in order to win their hearts for certain candidate or political party as define by

    me.

    Why are we all yawning for a better tommorow, when we are not do the

    needful. Vote buying in Nigeria has become rampant and escalate in Nigeria
    society that even every citizens of the republic of Nigeria are ready to sell their

    vote.

    WHY VOTE BUYING


    As Yoruba will say "ti ounje ba kuro ninu ise, is buse" in English it literally means

    " if someone at least sees in poverty sees something to eat, he or she will be

    relieved a bit from the pain of poverty" that is the simplest translation for

    everybody to understand.

    Nigeria case is not different from the above saying, 23% of Nigeria citizens are in

    abject poverty, so you can not even urge them not to involve in vote exchange

    for money .

    Vote buying is happening crucially in Nigeria because of the extreme rated of

    poverty and illiteracy in Nigeria. Nigeria policians and their masterminds that

    are occupied the seats of power are not doing the needful. They improvised po

    erty on people , so that in the time of election or when election approaches,

    since they were ones that caused poverty for the citizens, they will use money

    to induce people to win election. Whereas the promise they made for the

    people is to eradicate people from poverty, perhaps that is happening in Nigeria

    of today. They occupied office only to enrich their pockets but themselves and

    to has connections and are not doing the needful for the people they promised.

    Let take Osun State and Ekiti State both in Western part of Nigeria gubernatorial

    election for example: in Ekiti the ruling party were given people ten thousand
    naira to an individual for a vote and in osun they gave a pooling unit two million

    and one hundred thousand naira each. Atleast each party spend nothing less

    than four billion naira in Osun and Ekiti State gubernatorial election, what do

    you think will happen to such a state that a political party spend that sum of

    money will happen to such a state. Nothing good will not come from their

    Nazareth. The unimproved state that Nigeria is mainly because of the

    deteriorating act we are imbibed with.

    However, politicians believe people will not vote for them it perhaps they will

    not come out to vote because of their attitude towards people, so they

    monetize election by using money to induce voters.

    THE ATTITUDE OF CITIZENS TOWARD VOTE BUYING

    Largely citizens of Nigeria believe that the politicians would not be fair in office

    so everybody admonish the art of vote buying because of the attitude of


    politicians. According to some investigations, widely everybody in North or

    South even more than ninety percent of voters are ready to collect money

    before casting they can vote for any political party. They believe that they didn't

    have any choice than to collect money in time of election.

    Therefore, citizens have ways of saying some term for vote buying according to

    their views.

    1. whether they collect money or they (politicians) will do their mind.

    2. In South Western Nigeria people will say "dipo ko sepe" in English"vote

    and cook a pot of steel".

    WHY WE MUST GET THROUGH

    As general knowledge of bussiness, when you put one into something you will

    be expecting two or more two in return. No businessman will invest in any

    business without looking for a large profit or profits. The case goes on to
    everybody that involves in vote buying, politicians invest in election because

    they want to earn profit on it. We should all divert from the act of vote buying

    and vote selling if we want to change this country. If we as citizens of this great

    nation do not abide by the constitutional rights and vote those we trust without

    selling our vote we are doing ourselves.

    It is our responsibility to change this country from this mess, and we can only

    change it if we divert from vote buying.

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