2023: CMPA Condemns Ongoing Vote Trading, Warns Nigerians Against ‘Transactional Politics’
By Lawan Bukar Maigana
POLITICS DIGEST- The Centre For Media Policy and Accountability has expressed disappointment over the trend of transactional politics that is going on in the country.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Communications, Outreach, and Advocacy Ibrahim Uba Yusuf on Friday.
Nigerians from all walks of life have been shocked by the rate at which delegates are simply selling nomination tickets to the highest bidders in the ongoing party primaries across the country.
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“The Center for Media, Policy and Accountability (CMPA) has noted with regret the trend in which aspiring political office holders have injected questionable amount of money to secure tickets of their political parties in the ongoing primary elections as part of preparations to 2023 general elections. This situation suggests two things: one, the quest by politicians to remain in power by all means and two, Nigerians (delegates) have exchanged their conscience for paltry sum. Sadly, this ugly precedent has been set in Nigerian politics: the highest bidder gets the highest votes.
“It is important to remind delegates of the attendant challenges of this ugly transactional politics: another four years of bad governance, insecurity, and acute poverty among others. Nigerians should hold delegates of different political parties accountable for fielding the highest bidders, irrespective of the pedigree of the candidate and his/her plans for a new Nigeria project, in the event the winners of 2023 election fail to live up to expectations,” the statement read in part.
