The Osun gubernatorial candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, Engineer John Femi Adesuyi stated that the bad consequences of vote buying lasts a lifetime in the life of electorate.
He stated this on Tuesday during Osun State Town Hall Meeting titled “INCREASING WOMEN AND YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS AND ELECTORAL PROCESSES”.
Speaking at the event by U.S. Government Exchange Alumni Association, Osun State Chapter with the support of the U.S. Consulate General, Lagos in Osogbo, Adesuyi said, “They say ‘collect money and make soup’ and some people say it would last four years. No, it lasts for a lifetime. People vote those who are not to be voted for because of money, any negative impacts of decisions that person make while on that seat last a life time. Some people may die due to those decisions, some lives get cut short, some sustain injuries forever.
“We have been cooking soups before election season. You cooked soups and eat in your homes. If you see what happened in Ekiti during the gubernatorial election, you will pity the people.
“if you vote and collect #10,000 because of poverty, does that remove poverty? If what it takes is to endure the election day hunger, we should endure.
“If you collect money, you have collected the money meant for good roads, hospitals, free education among others. Let’s reject their money. Let’s ask them to develop our country instead.
“If we want to salvage ourselves from these suffering we should stop collecting money from them.
“No politician is a fool. If you say you want to collect his money and not vote for him, he himself has put control mechanism in place that would prevent such. It would be very hard or impossible to collect his money and not vote for him.
“So, do we want to produce someone who will better the lots of the people or not?
Adesuyi thereafter blamed of vote buying on the duo of the government and the electorate.
“The government should be blamed for vote buying. They have made our country to become unbearable. Those collecting money should also be blamed.”
