These Pains And Money To Determine Who To Vote?* - _Dayo Onibiyo_

*These Pains And Money To Determine Who To Vote?* - _Dayo Onibiyo_ 

Not even stack illiterates are excused under these agonies and pains of survival not to talk of educated or if it's permitted, semi illiterates! to sell their votes, not to speak of literates.

It is important to look at this unfortunate factor again, that one is collecting money to determine who to vote for in an election, this low despicable act, only fortifies the submission that, whoever sells his or her vote one is nothing but a cheap slave in the 21st century.

Meanwhile, not days long before 1979 and even partly 1979, people were still contributing to support candidates of their party to let them face and win elections, so trying to know where the disconnections and drifts to this madness of vote buying and selling comes from, may not be far fetched but surely at the curve of lost of human dignity. Simply the point where men decides that they are now commodities to be bought and of course bought cheaply and stupidly.

Though, this coming to black market voting, tagged primaries, is as good as  customized in Nigeria already, which is why most of the so called delegates if not all, are of no value to whoever win the election- the candidates.

Coming back to 2023 elections which are just a few weeks from now, some Nigerians with all they are suffering and going through are still anxiously waiting for someone who will buy them and their next four years "future", they still want to eat portage *asaro*  of muzzles and let go a workable leader with values to fix the nation as displayed in managing his own business.

Sad as it is, queuing endlessly for fuel, paying through the nose to buy a little that is within ones reach when you indeed, eventually get any, paying to buy the naira in your account which has never being the case in the 63 years of Nigeria's existence or in the pre colonial days, and of course feeding through the nose having worked like an elephant, are quiet unfortunate and unnecessary if we have had a government of responsible politicians and policy makers, produced by votes from reasonable voters who of course ends upnbearing the end brunts.

My take on this in summary, is nothing should make anyone SELL his or HER vote because that money will not sustain you, has never sustained anyone and won't sustain anyone.

It is therefore, important to ensure that you vote based on who is competent to you to turn around this Sodom and Gomora that, we have found ourselves in Nigeria, as the land need to be turned to the land of Goshen where our resources will be rescued, tapped for developement and subsequently directed  towards growth, for humanity to be accorded it's rightful place.

 *Say NO, to vote buying by not selling yours!*