{"id":297984,"date":"2023-11-21T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=297984"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:49:07","slug":"how-failure-to-bribe-inec-police-made-us-lose-an-election-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/11\/21\/how-failure-to-bribe-inec-police-made-us-lose-an-election-obasanjo\/","title":{"rendered":"How Failure To Bribe INEC, Police Made Us Lose An Election \u2013 Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The former President addressed a high-level consultation on &#8216;Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy in Africa&#8217; in Abeokuta.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The octogenarian emphasised that the Western liberal democracy being practised in Africa has not really taken human nature and the African situation into full account.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In 1998, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State lost a local government election due to the rejection of attempts by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to bribe officials of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/11\/20\/breaking-lp-supporters-storm-inec-office-in-imo\/\">Independent National Electoral Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a high-level consultation he convened on &#8220;Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy in Africa,&#8221; he gave a speech in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo claimed that party leaders had advised him that funding for the police and INEC should be set aside, but he rejected the idea because he thought police officers and INEC officials were employed by the government and were therefore entitled to monthly wages.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed to the politicians and academics present at the debate that he does not always feel comfortable using the term &#8220;Nigerian factor&#8221; when talking about democracy and other matters that have an impact on development.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he came across the \u2018Nigerian factor\u2019 slang when the nation held the first local government election and his party lost because politicians said be refused to take cognisance of the Nigerian factor while planning for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo said: \u201cWhen things go wrong, you said the Nigerian factor. The first thing I learnt in politics was this thing I called Nigerian factor. In 1998, we had the first local government election. We had parties, and here in Abeokuta, we met in my office and they came up and said, \u2018look, this is money for INEC, money for police.\u2019 At a stage I said, \u2018what nonsense! Is police not being paid, and INEC too?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said \u2018that\u2019s how we do it. I said \u2018you cannot do that.\u2019 So, they didn\u2019t do that. And of course, we lost all the local governments. We lost all. And then they came to me and said, \u2018Baba, you see? If you had allowed us to do it the way we used to do it, we would have won\u2019. And I felt guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the next election which was State Assembly, I just stayed in my house. I said \u2018well, do whatever you want to do, I will not be part of it\u2019. So, I didn\u2019t even go. But, the result was the same. One of the people who got money didn\u2019t even distribute it to where he was supposed to distribute it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While saying it is time to be realistic, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/11\/20\/western-democracy-not-working-for-africa-obasanjo\/\"> former President<\/a> also known as the Balogun of Owu, said a hungry will sell his vote for just N1000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are hungry, whatever anybody tells you cannot go in. Poverty is a great enemy of democracy. Ignorance or lack of education is a great enemy of democracy. And we seem to be deliberately fomenting poverty and lack of education,\u201d Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former President addressed a high-level consultation on &#8216;Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy in Africa&#8217; in Abeokuta. 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