Vote Buying and Improving Electoral Processes in Nigeria
The phenomenon of vote buying selling is an electoral malpractices that subverts the integrity of the electoral process with is the very means by which a society democratically translates human rights to political participation (section 14(2) (a) 1999 const. into a corrupt free (section 15(5) an orderly, efficient and reliable process in whose legitimacy all Stakeholders: Political parties, candidates, aspirants and voters can have confidence. Apart from the commonly cited contributory factors of poverty, illiteracy/ignorance, and growing youth unemployment responsible for the sustenance of phenomenon of vote buying in Nigeria, there are more fundamental attitudinal problems on the part of both the electorates and political parties/candidates/aspirants/interest groups that need to be urgently addressed.