In the recently concluded presidential and National Assembly elections, all major political parties cheated in a variety of ways, most notably by purchasing votes.
Adebayo Adewole, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential candidate, claimed that on election day, the Labour Party (LP) had purchased votes using dollars, and that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had similarly purchased votes using N200 cash and recharge cards, respectively.
The SDP presidential candidate claimed that the Labour Party, PDP, and APC all committed voting fraud in his own voting unit in Ondo State when he appeared on Arise Television’s The Morning Show on Friday.
A victim cannot be blaming other victims, he said. I never asserted that the election is free of flaws. The election is flawed in every way. Anyone who wants to go and challenge the election should do so because everything is wrong with the election,
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“But it’s not only what happened that day that was wrong with the election. People (political parties] cheated. Many of those who are complaining now cheated in the election. In the polling unit where I voted, Labour Party cheated, PDP cheated and the APC cheated more because vote buying is cheating.
“APC used recharge cards to cheat, the Labour Party brought dollars and PDP shared money. Why will I not complain? Atiku Abubakar cheated me of my vote in Katsina and Adamawa State, he was buying votes with N200. What I’m saying is that the election is flawed. It’s not an honest process.”
