Nigeria, April 16 -- The parties that took part in the 1993 general elections spent between N120 million to N1 billion in vote-buying during primaries, a civil society group, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), said on Tuesday.

The CDD executive director, Idayat Hassan, said this at a national dialogue organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

The event had the theme: "Eradicating electoral corruption with the focus on vote buying," and held on Thursday in Keffi.

Ms Hassan, who gave a breakdown of vote-buying in Nigeria's electoral history, said the menace has worsened over the years.

"Vote buying has existed since 1960 in Nigeria. The only difference is that the mode has chan...