Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress , says “election finance” laws must be enforced to tackle the issue of vote-buying in Nigeria.
Sowore said the problem of money politics will persist if laws addressing the issue are not enforced or are only targeted at “poor politicians”, while “powerful ones” are spared. According to him, mainstream political parties already know how to use the currency of manipulation against the populace. “Nobody is talking about security agencies. Mike did mention election managers — the mainstream politicians have perfected how to take care of every stage from primaries to the final election, so the real currency is manipulation — manipulation of people’s minds.