Nigeria: INEC Uncovers Alleged New Vote-Buying Plans

22 January 2019

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has uncovered new plans by some politicians to buy votes through food vendors around polling units in the forthcoming general elections.

Food vendors are employees under the Home Grown School Feeding arm of the Social Intervention Programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government.

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