Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested a man suspected of attempting to buy votes in the ongoing Ondo governorship election.
The man was nabbed on election day at Ward 4, Polling Unit 007, outside St Stephen’s Primary School, Akure, the state capital.
According to TheCable, a television footage showed the operatives and passers-by bellowing on the man to open the boot of his Toyota Camry car. Once he did, two ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags were seen sitting pretty.
The bags were not opened before the cameras as a mob encircled.
The DSS operatives then shoved the man into a white bus from where he was spirited away.
Vote-buying has become commonplace in Nigeria’s elections. Civil society organisations continue to bemoan the trend where agents of political parties carry cash to polling units to induce voters to cast their ballots a certain way.
Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Agboola Ajayi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Abbas Mimiko of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) are the frontrunners in the election.
