Ekiti Decides 2018: Ezekwesili speaks on vote buying

Oby Ezekwesili, former Education Minister, has reacted to the
allegations of vote-buying leveled against party agents by voters in
some polling units during Ekiti Governorship election.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the Ekiti State
governorship election, Kayode Fayemi won in 12 out of 16 Local
Government Areas in the poll held on Saturday.

Fayemi polled 197,459 while Olusola scored 178,114 votes. However, APC
was accused of offering N5,000 to those who had the Permanent Voters'
Card to secure their votes, while PDP shared N3,000.

Reacting, Ezekwesili described the situation as 'Democracy on sale',
reiterating why the major parties in Nigeria need to be voted out in
2019.

She, however, noted that the mismanagement of Ekiti election by
'Twin-Evil of Nigeria Politics' would pay off in 2019 election.

In a series of tweets, she wrote: "Democracy For Sale. What would make
a person PAY a people money in order to SERVE them?

"Democracy as practiced by Nigeria's Political Class:Use the proceeds
of the pillage of Public Treasury to purchase the consent of the
people to pillage them some more.

"Increase the intensity of previous pillage to guarantee a place in
the Senate & a successor who protects.

"Nigeria's irredeemable Political Class and their minions will assume
that this is how it will ALWAYS be.

"You will hear their "triumphant shouts of electoral victory" which
was brazenly purchased with the public resources of the people.

"It shall end, nothing lasts forever. Not even the deeply entrenched
in decadence Nigeria Political Class can hold a People down in such
servitude forever.

"The inevitability of the end of a thing shall kick in, the
unsustainability of failure shall soon end the Sale of Democracy.

"Perhaps, more Citizens now understand why we call them the
Siamese-Twins of Nigeria Politics. Perhaps, more Nigerians now
understand why we posit that there is Zero difference between Six and
Half-Dozen.

"Perhaps, more Nigerians will now appreciate why 2019 must be different.

"All things about sordidness of the #EkitiVotes2018 shall ultimately
work together for the good of Nigeria's Democracy in 2019 because now
many more of Citizens will awaken to the work needed to deliver
Nigeria from the Twin-Evil of Nigeria Politics."