Sokoto Resident Testified That They We Were Given A Thousand Naira(N1000) To Vote Buhari In 2019; Now It’s N2000 For Tinubu

Mallam Ango, a resident of Wamakko Local Government, Sokoto State, testified that political actors in his community promised all residents N2,000 if they voted for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

He claimed that it was a practice in his community for people to demand money before voting in any of the general elections.

They were promised N2000 per head to vote for Tinubu, an increase from the N1000 they were promised to vote for Buhari during the 2019 general elections.

He said the increase could be due to the competition the APC now faced in the state from the Peoples Democratic Party. He also confirmed the stories of several vote buying exercises which characterised the Nigerian electioneering period.

Also the Director General of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization (APCO), Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State had also testified that the APC was amassing money to buy people’s votes ahead of next month’s elections.

Although his party PDP, is also notorious for inducing voters with money during elections as seen in the last Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections, Tambuwal rubbed the allegations of vote-buying on the APC in January in the Binji local government area of Sokoto State while he was on the third leg of a statewide campaign on behalf of the PDP.

The state campaign train has so far touched base in 7 out of the 23 local government areas of the state: Dange/Shuni, Illela, Kware, Silame, Wamakko, Binji and Tangaza.