{"id":224936,"date":"2022-10-28T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=224936"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:37:28","slug":"election-finance-laws-must-be-enforced-to-address-vote-buying-says-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/28\/election-finance-laws-must-be-enforced-to-address-vote-buying-says-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"Election finance laws must be enforced to address vote-buying, says Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has stated that &#8216;election finance&#8217; laws must be enforced to tackle the issue of vote-buying in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known on Thursday by the activist when he appeared on #FixPolitics Dialogue titled \u2018Cash or Ballot: What Should Be the Currency of Democracy\u2019, aired on AIT.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore said the problem of money politics will persist if laws addressing the issue are not enforced or are only targeted at \u201cpoor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/26\/criminal-intention-police-caution-politicians-against-covering-number-plates-with-stickers\/\">politicians<\/a>\u201d, while \u201cpowerful ones\u201d are spared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be election finance laws. We need them to be enforced because majorly, we have laws that are not enforced or enforced with poor people and not enforced with the powerful, rich people in the political scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The AAC presidential candidate also described election day in Nigeria as \u201ca day for verification of poverty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, mainstream political parties already know how to use the currency of manipulation against the populace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection dialogue day in Nigeria has become a day for verification of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/26\/theyve-nothing-to-show-apart-from-poverty-insecurity-bad-leadership-pdp-blasts-apc\/\">poverty<\/a>. Election day in Nigeria has become a day for verification, that\u2019s why we call the PVC, the poverty verification card in Nigeria,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason is simple. It\u2019s not just about cash and ballots, there are lots of factors involved in making Nigeria\u2019s election the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is talking about security agencies. Mike did mention election managers \u2014 the mainstream politicians have perfected how to take care of every stage from primaries to the final election, so the real currency is manipulation \u2014 manipulation of people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, most of the people that are expecting cash don\u2019t get it so they create expectation fantasy that the cash is on its way, and they never got it and those who got the cash, it never lasted them for a week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of money, those of us who are not mainstream, the way we manage our affairs is through ideas, because that should ordinarily be the currency of the democratic process in Nigeria. People have ideas to protect them, defend them. 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