Peter Obi Raises Alarm Over Alleged Vote Buying Between ₦20,000, ₦30,000 In Anambra Governorship Election

<h4>Peter Obi Raises Alarm Over Alleged Vote Buying<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Mr&period; Peter Obi&comma; Presidential candidate of the Labour Party &lpar;LP&rpar; in the 2023 election&comma; has decried vote buying in the ongoing Anambra State governorship election&comma; alleging that votes are being bought for between ₦20&comma;000 and ₦30&comma;000&period;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4>Obi&comma; who spoke shortly after voting at about 11&colon;50 a&period;m&period; at his Umudim&sol;Akasi Ward&comma; said the development was not good for the country’s democracy&period;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4>He said&comma;<em><strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My personal experience is that democracy is deteriorating in our country&period; Unfortunately&comma; those who are the victims of bad governance seem to be fuelling it&period; I have been able to listen to people around me on what is happening today&period; What you see is that vote buying is on the scale of ₦20&comma;000&comma; ₦30&comma;000&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The question I ask is&comma; if you sell your vote for ₦30&comma;000&comma; what is he going to be paid next month&quest; By selling your vote&comma; you’re selling no school&comma; no hospital&comma; no job&semi; you’re selling away your future&comma; and that is what is very worrisome&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Other countries&comma; even West African countries that are close to us where I have observed elections&comma; I didn’t see this happen&period; So you people who are journalists&comma; you must cooperate to save the situation&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On his prediction for the election&comma; he said&comma; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m a member of LP and I support the LP candidate&comma; but quite frankly&comma; everybody involved in this election&comma; they are my brothers and my sisters and everything&period; I’m not on the ballot&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I have been governor 13 years ago&comma; so I’m strictly in the Champions League of Nigerian politics&semi; I’m contesting to be president of Nigeria&period; For people who are in the 1st Division&comma; I wish them well&period; I hope surely they will do very well&period; Whoever wins&comma; let him serve the people&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He stated that Nigeria needs service-minded leaders to pull the people out of poverty&comma; stressing that <strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;our people need to know that schools are working&semi; it’s not grandstanding&period; We need to rebuild the hospitals&period; <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>That’s why we are supporting nursing schools to be able to produce the manpower that is required for every village to have a primary<&sol;em> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">healthcare centre<&sol;a> where people can go to&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the performance of INEC in the election&comma; he said&comma;<em><strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have congratulated the new INEC chairman and told him to look at what happened to his predecessors&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>All I can say to him is that the name and reputation his children will live with is a test for him in office&period; So while you are there&comma; try to serve humanity and society&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;21683" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-21683" style&equals;"width&colon; 231px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-21683" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;Chinyere-e1749400980103-231x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Peter Obi Raises Alarm Over Alleged Vote Buying Between ₦20&comma;000&comma; ₦30&comma;000 In Anambra Governorship Election" width&equals;"231" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-21683" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Peter Obi<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;