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Sen. Henry Seriake Dickson (PDP-Bayelsa) has urged Nigerians to stand against vote buying and production of fake election results.
Dickson mad the call in an interview with the newsmen stressing that stakeholders and Nigerians at large have responsibilities to reshape ugly trends occuring in the country.
He stressed that the ugly incidents being capitalized by some wealthy and influential politicians is capable of destroying the nations democratic processes.
He described poverty and ignorance as the bedrock used by selfish politicians to manipulate and garner votes through using monetary and material inducements.
He narrated that the incidents have subjected Nigerians to untold hardship and deter the nation’s progress as incompetent persons were occupying positions which they offer noting after scaling through.
” I preach against vote buying and selling, which all disenfranchised voters.
” I also strongly condemned the outright use of state machineries, and preparing of results ahead of elections banking on powers and state institutions.
” Electoral body should fine-tune measures to tackle such maneuvers at the voting points rather pushing the outcome to Judicial processes.
‘ At the end Court bangs on some technicalities and throw away genuine cases of electrical frauds, ” Dickson said.
According to him, such processes have been producing persons that cannot even win election at their immediate family or community settings and bragging on winning elections.
” As member of Senate we are pursuing laws to further regulate such anomalies, however, we acknowledged that INEC cannot regulate actions of security personnel and others during elections.
” That was the main reason to decamping to ruling political parties which was to attract such illicit favourable of using state machineries on winning ejection in any form.
” More notable politicians and Nigeria s are shifting political grounds trooping into ruling party, all such actions were to secure favours and achieve political maneuvers easily,” he added.
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