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ADC Candidate Laments

<h4>ADC Candidate Laments over electoral process<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that an African Democratic Congress&comma; ADC candidate in the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State is lamenting&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Among other thing&comma; the candidate&comma; Wole Oluyede&comma; says that for allowing themselves to be financially induced by wealthy politicians on election day&comma; it appears the poor people of Ekiti are not ready for life improvement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Australia-based medical doctor has also expressed regret for joining politics&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ekiti people have chosen the leader they want by collecting money to vote and they should not complain of lacking basic and social amenities in the future&period; The problem Ekiti has now is that the people are poor and that was why they could buy their conscience&period; That was what All Progressives <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thisdaylive&period;com&sol;">Congress<&sol;a> used in gaining the heart of many people&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;More worrisome is the fact that the people do not want a solution to the problem of poverty&period; That was why even when we came with an agenda to address the poverty confronting them&comma; they still expected us to buy their votes before we could help them&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The winner is not the best&comma; but he is the one the people deserved&comma;” he lamented&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The <strong>ADC<&sol;strong> candidate&comma; who came fourth in the election&comma; said that he deliberately refused to buy votes&comma; adding&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have lost hope in the entire process in the state&comma; it is a tragedy&period; I didn’t buy votes of Ekiti people deliberately&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can’t use my hard-earned resources to run around talking to people on why I should be elected and I will still need to buy people&comma; security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission&period; It appears politics here does not mean the best will emerge&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Oluyede said he would not challenge in court the outcome of the election which he said was highly monetised&comma; saying such would amount to time wasting as he alleged that the entire election process including the electoral umpire and security agencies were hijacked by vote-buyers thus making it easy to induce voters without any hindrance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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