THE governorship candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) in Ogun State, Mr Ademola Ogunbanjo, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to arrest and prosecute accordingly, anyone found guilty of vote buying in the forthcoming elections, so as to serve as deterrents to others.
He said this in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune in Abeokuta, that the electoral body must educate and sensitise the electorate against voting buying and that anyone found culpable during any electoral process would be dealt with according to the dictates of the law.
Ogunbanjo urged the electorate not to mortage their future by collecting money from candidates or their political parties before exercising their civic responsibilities.
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He said, “Vote buying is illegal. It is constitutionally wrong. There is a law that is against it. What INEC then needs to then do is that those that perpetuate such are arrested, tried in court and whatever judgment the court announces is what will have to happen. So we need to be more serious about enforcement of the law that is against vote buying. People will try but if we are ready and we arrest the situation, it will help us greatly as a nation to vote for the best candidates.”
Ogunbanjo, a Strategy Consultant, expressed confidence that INEC will conduct a free, fair and credible elections in 2019, advising the electoral body to work on all the challenges confronting it before the election proper.
“Every organisation is faced with one weakness or the other. INEC may have shown certain weaknesses and cracks in their camp, but I believe that the body can improve on it as we go along so that by 2019, they are ready and they would run a smooth election,” he added.
He promised that his administration, if elected into office, would provide a better standard of living for Ogun people, saying that the ideology of the party is people oriented saying “it is first the people, not just by lip service but indeed the truth. We are here to truly represent the people. Their aspirations may be achieved in their various forms. That’s why I am running for office and that’s what ANN is out to achieve.
Predetermined outcome for Buhari’s success in 2019 is fraud. It is corruption. It is impunity. Why declare votes before election. Who does that?
So much impunity in Buhari’s corrupt administration.
Buhari, sign the electoral act and stop deceiving the international community that the election Will be free and fair.
Already INEC chairman is a criminal, he must be arrested. He cannot conduct a free and fair elections.
1. He falsified documents of kogi electorate and forged their signatures just to get at Dino
2. He rigging Ekiti state elections with 30,000 Nigerian police officers.
3. He attempted to stop issuing PVCs when he realized that north had collected more PVCs than south.
4. He Covered up for underage voters in North.
5. He wants to use N6billion to feed police in 2019 elections when the same money can pay police salaries and pension for one year, to reduce police misconduct. This is the same police he used to rig elections in ekiti state.
6. INEC connived with touts to sell PVCs to individuals at N1,500 in lagos. Go to Ikorodu INEC office and you will not be disappointed. How is this INEC chairman credible?
7. After cancelling so many viable votes, and sending INEC official to tear ballot papers of Adeleke’s votes, Adeleke of PDP still won the election. Yet INEC, with all its impunity and corruption refused to declare Adeleke winner. Shame on these thieves.
8. Instead Buhari sends Nigeria military to terrorize osun state and hand over the state to APC. This is not democracy. Democracy was when Adeleke of PDP won the election in a leveled playing field and without the intimidation of the police and military.
9. CSOs raise alarm over purchase of PVCs from their owners in Kano state. Yet corrupt INEC is deaf and blind to it. Perhaps this is the 2.9million voter who would likely vote for Buhari. This is what the governor of Kano state was referring to, when he said that 1.2million votes are ready for Buhari.
10. Judiciary under Buhari is enabling corruption and encouraging impunity. Why is the tribunal speaking the same language of lies as those who rigged elections?
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Our votes are not safe with this corrupt criminal called INEC chairman. He must be arrested. This man is unfit to conduct a free and fair elections. He is working for corrupt Buhari and not for Nigeria.