Amid criticism, political parties have deployed new methods of buying votes in the ongoing presidential and national assembly elections.

In Oke-Adan Ward 3, DC Primary School, units I & II, Iwo, Osun State, major political parties have agents on the ground doing the shady job for them.

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FIJ observed agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) issuing triangle-like plain white tickets to those they believed had voted for them.

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Agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have their own trick to sway voters to their side. They write down the names and phone numbers of voters with a promise to pay them after the election.

According to the agents, their principals could not give them cash in view of the lingering cash scarcity in the country.

The agents doing this stand a short distance from the voting booth monitoring which party their ‘customers’ are voting for.

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“As you are voting, you must stylishly show it to me before dropping it into the ballot box. Nobody will arrest you. If you don’t do that, you may not get any money in the end. That’s the instruction from our party. You are aware cash is scarce in the country,” Kemi, an APC agent, told voters repeatedly.

Despite knowing that vote selling and buying is illegal, the agents and voters were not discreet in their acts.