Benin city – In continuation of its voters education programme, the Edo state directorate of National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Thursday took the ‘Say No To Vote Buying’ campaign to the Benin Central Motor park at Obakhawaye.
Vote buying which is an inducement of electorates to vote for a particular candidate or political party, the agency explained if not reverse, poses danger to Nigeria’s nascent democracy.
Sensitizing commercial motorists and traders at the motor park, the Acting Director of Edo NOA, Mrs Grace Eseka urged electorate to always vote candidates of their choice.
Mrs Eseka charged them not to sell their votes, which according to her is a right and their power to demand accountability and transparency from elected public officials.
On his part, a commercial bus driver, Mr Martins Odion commended NOA for the awareness campaign, but expressed dismay over incidents of vote buying in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Also, a trader who declined to give her name used the medium to appeal to the state governor, Godwin Obaseki to complete the ongoing work at the bus terminal before the rains sets in.
She said: “anytime it rains here the whole park is usually flooded, you see dirty everywhere and we do not have toilets and other facilities here despite buying tickets. The government should please do something”.
