2019: Reps aspirant decries buying of votes by politicians
A House of Reps aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Bogoro, Dass and Tafawa-Balewa constituency, Barrister Gashion Danna, has bemoaned the penchant of desperate politicians to buy votes during elections in the country.
This was as he took President Muhammadu Buhari to task over the rate of insecurity in the country, particularly in the Middle-Belt.
Speaking with DAILY POST in Bauchi, the aspiring Reps member stated that the vote buying witnessed in the recently held Ekiti governorship poll and Bauchi bye-election is worrisome and detrimental to the survival of democracy in Nigeria.
“Unless INEC and security agents exist independently, vote buying will not be discouraged come 2019 elections because agents of the ruling party operate with impunity and buy votes which is against the electoral law,” he said.
Danna regretted that such practices have negative effect and constitute a calculated attempt to deny credible persons, especially the youth, an opportunity to stand for elections.
He however cautioned the PDP against playing the politics of god-fatherism, urging the party to learn from the 2015 election which it lost to the APC.
Danna came hard on Buhari over series of killings under his watch, saying that, “the killings under APC administration justify that Buhari is not in firm control of the nation’s security apparatus”.
He stated that under the Buhari administration, Nigerians were now more divided along religious, tribal and cultural lines.
