#EdoDecides2020: PDP, APC agents buying votes at polling units
Nigeria, Sept. 19 -- Agents of the two major political parties- the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party - have been found buying votes in the ongoing governorship election in Edo State.
A Premium Times Centre For Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) observer who witnessed the situation explained that while vote-buying was going on in some polling units, party agents in other polling units were coercing the aged to vote their preferred candidates.
Party agents in PU unit 1, Ward 4 in Etsako East local government were also thumbprinting for voters which is against the electoral act.
But a presiding officer who introduced himself as Timothy said "everything is under control."
The electoral act says a voter commits an offen...
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