WHY BUYING AND SELLING OF VOTES SHOULD BE STOPPED.
"People that buy votes and those that sell their votes do not mean well for this country." That was what an old politician, Mr Peter Adoghe said during my discussion with him on political matters in Benin City recently. "Why did you say so ? " .I asked the 80 year old man. The old man began to tell me the reasons for elections, how elections should be conducted and what he hates about elections in Nigeria.. Election, as we all know, is an aspect of any democratic process. It is a process that is originally meant to pick the best sets of leaders to lead members of a group or community. In a democratic setting like that of Nigeria, elections are supposed to be means of getting the best leaders to occupy different elective offices in the country. Unfortunately in Nigeria, elections have been trailed by different types of allegations of malpractices which have resulted to electing mediocres to occupy elective offices like those of the President of the country, Gover