Nigeria, Jan. 9 -- Assistant Corruption Officers series. Week 2, continuing seamlessly from Week 1.

In theory, elections are sacred moments.

They are the one time ordinary citizens hold power over the powerful, when a poor man's thumb carries the same weight as a billionaire's signature. They are supposed to be the heartbeat of democracy. In Nigeria, however, elections have become something else entirely.

A market.

And like every market, there are buyers, sellers, middlemen, and hawkers shouting prices in the open.

Democracy on Sale.

On election day, the transformation is always dramatic. The same streets that lack hospitals suddenly have "logistics." The same politicians who ignore communities suddenly know every pothole by name. T...