Voters at a polling unit in Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State have alleged that suspected All Progressives Congress, APC, supporters were sharing money during the ongoing governorship election.
The incident was captured in a video at Ward 4, Unit 7, where voters confronted alleged vote buyers at the polling location.
The voters said the incident occurred at about 9:30 am. A similar incident was also alleged to have occurred at Ward 4, Unit 13 around 10:30 am.
One of the voters said the people accused of sharing the money fled the area with some of the cash in a polythene bag.
“We don’t know how much there was. They ran away and used a polythene bag to take the money away,” the voter said in the video.
The voter also said those involved were sharing money despite instructions that cash should not be distributed at polling units.
“The rule given to us was that we should not give money to anyone. We did not cause any trouble; we were only running after them,” the voter said.
Some of the voters also displayed money they claimed to have recovered from people they accused of sharing cash, alongside a card they identified as belonging to the APC.
“This is the evidence. The card they used belongs to the APC, and their logo is on it,” the voter said.
The incident reportedly occurred at the polling unit of Najeem Folasayo Salaam, popularly known as Iwaloye, the African Democratic Congress governorship candidate.
But the voters alleged that the people caught sharing the money were linked to the APC and displayed an APC card as what they described as evidence.
“We are talking about Iwaloye, the ADC candidate. At his unit, APC members are sharing money. It happened at about 9:30am in Unit 7 and 10:30am in Unit 13,” one of the voters alleged.
