{"id":175143,"date":"2025-08-20T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:07:04","slug":"apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani","title":{"rendered":"APC&#8217;s Vote Buying Outpaced Others Says ADC&#8217;s Mani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ibrahim Mani, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) engaged in more vote buying than any other political party during the recent by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Trust TV, Dr. Mani said his party monitored polling units in different states and observed widespread voter inducement, with the ruling party being the major beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn most of the places we monitored, it was the ruling party that benefited more from vote buying. And in Kano, the ruling party in the state also bought votes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the practice was possible because politicians had weaponized poverty and deliberately impoverished citizens to make them easy targets during elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what we have seen as a clear indication of what a government can achieve if they made poverty to be this widespread and rampant in a country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have so impoverished the people to the extent that the end game is to use this poverty against them and then bring out money to induce voters during elections,\u201d Mani explained.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that in some polling units, voters were given as much as \u20a620,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least now there is a little improvement from the last elections, where they were just giving spaghetti and macaroni. In some instances, they are now giving as much as \u20a620,000 per voter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC chieftain, however, said his party was still in the process of building its structures and testing its strength.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that participating in the elections gave them firsthand insight into the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still rolling out structures, mobilising and creating an environment that will make Nigerians have confidence in the electoral system. For us, these by-elections were about testing the waters.<\/p>\n<p>If we didn\u2019t participate in the elections, I wouldn\u2019t be sitting here and talking about what we have observed. What we saw is a clear indication of what a government can achieve if it deliberately spreads poverty to make people vulnerable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ibrahim Mani, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) engaged in more vote buying than any other political party during the recent by-elections. Speaking on Trust TV, Dr. Mani said his party monitored polling units in different states and observed widespread voter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,34,254,7217],"class_list":["post-175143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-vote-buying"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC&#039;s Vote Buying Outpaced Others Says ADC&#039;s Mani - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ibrahim Mani, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress ( ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC&#039;s Vote Buying Outpaced Others Says ADC&#039;s Mani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ibrahim Mani, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress ( ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T07:54:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T09:07:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755668373.240969.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC&#8217;s Vote Buying Outpaced Others Says ADC&#8217;s Mani\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-20T07:54:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-20T09:07:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755668373.240969.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Vote Buying\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-vote-buying-outpaced-others-says-adcs-mani\",\"name\":\"APC's Vote Buying Outpaced Others Says ADC's Mani - 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