I vote based on the integrity, credibility, good programme, ideology & principles of my candidates. For instance, I voted for Obafemi Awolowo and Gani Fawehinmi for president and I have never collected a kobo to vote or helped to distribute money or foodstuffs to voters as vote-buying and inducement because I am not a criminal like those who always breach this electoral rule and their conscience despite their 'kurukere kurukere' to prayer centres, Mecca and Jerusalem as faithful.
I've never been a bandwagon voter since I started voting in 1983. So I don't vote based on whether my candidate will win or lose, even though I want them to win but not at all cost and by all criminal ways necessary. No, I was not brought up that way nor did I bring myself up like that.
I vote based on the integrity, credibility, good programme, ideology & principles of my candidates. For instance, I voted for Obafemi Awolowo and Gani Fawehinmi for president and I have never collected a kobo to vote or helped to distribute money or foodstuffs to voters as vote-buying and inducement because I am not a criminal like those who always breach this electoral rule and their conscience despite their 'kurukere kurukere' to prayer centres, Mecca and Jerusalem as faithful.
Can you say this of yourself? Then if you can't beat your chest that you have never collected money, distributed food and materials as inducement for votes or been a vote retailer/wholesaler, just know that you are a criminal dangerous to Nigeria's democracy and good governance. You don't need a court of law to convict you for that.
You share in the sin and crime of bad governance, corruption and political banditry with all these rogue politicians holding the country to ransom and messing up the nation and citizens' lives. You are cursed.
I won't collect money to vote or to help buy votes in any election. Can you say that of yourself before you start condemning bad governance and praying for good government?
Let your conscience prick you, at least for once. Rogue leaders and their rogue supporters and enablers don't and can't build a nation; they build a jungle of criminals, mass impoverished people and unleash bad governance and terror... Stop it.