There were incidents of alleged vote-buying and voter inducements reported in many of the polling units across Osun state during the just concluded governorship election held on Saturday.
It was gathered that one of the political parties sent N5m to each of the polling units, giving out a minimum of N20,000 per voter.
Apart from the polling unit funds, the party allegedly gave between N2m and N5m to top security officers in each of the LGAs, with the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) receiving the least.
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development said it received reports that N50,000 was given to each voter in some polling units in Ilesa East Local Government Area of the state.
The centre also said security personnel were implicated in the vote-buying incident, as they allegedly received cash from a certain political party in Ayedaade and Ife North local governments.
At Polling Unit 13, Orinayon, Ward 4 in Ejigbo Local Government, some bundles of cash were seized from an agent of a party buying votes in the area.
A viral video posted on social media also showed some voters confronting a party’s agent with bundles of cash allegedly for vote-buying at Polling Unit 11, Ward 8, in Olorunda Local Government Area of the state.
There was also a report of vote-buying at Ward 11, Unit 17, Oke-Baale, Osogbo, as a party allegedly paid each of the voters a sum of N25,000.
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