Agents
of different political parties on Saturday openly distributed food and cash
gifts at polling booths to sway the support of voters at the ongoing Anambra
gubernatorial election, according to Premium Times.
Reporters and monitors for this newspaper and
its partner, the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, witnessed agents of
the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, All Progressives Congress, and the
Peoples Democratic Party either giving cash or cooked food as gifts to voters.
In some cases, voters handed over their voter
cards for money.
At Illo Abito square, Nsugbe, where the APC
gubernatorial aspirant, Tony Nwoye, voted, people received cooked rice as
encouragement to vote for the party.
At the Okija Ward 2, PU009, Umuohi Community
Primary School, reporters witnessed suspected agents of the PDP, APC, APGA
wooing voters with cash.
Agents handed N500 to each voter who gave their
votes in return.
At Umedim ward 1 in Otolo, Nnewi North local
government, locals queued to collect money from agents said to represent the
APC and APGA.
Agents believed to be working for PDP were also
seen sharing N2,000 each to voters at CPS Odekpe, ward 5, Ogbaru local
government.
At Nnewi Ichi Polling Unit 003, PT reporters
witnessed alleged APGA agents giving prospective voters money in exchange for
their voter cards.
Also,
agents of APGA shared gala sausage and Malt drink at Polling Unit 020/ and Unit
021, Community Primary School at Abatete.
The spokespersons for the parties could not be
immediately reached.
- Premium Times
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