Ekiti Decides: Yiaga Africa laments troubling magnitude of vote buying

Yiaga Africa, a civic hub for promoting democratic governance, human rights and civic participation, has described as troubling the magnitude of vote buying and selling during the Ekiti State off-cycle governorship election.
The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, expressed disappointment in a chat with journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday.
Itodo argued that it would be difficult to attribute the impressive turnout of voters either to incidents of vote buying or to the voluntary decision of voters.
“The biggest worry, which again was predicted, was this issue about vote buying. And we cannot say at this moment, though it is premature, whether the impressive turnout tha...