Politicians in the Imo state have commenced vote buying through Point of Sale (POS) agents.
According to the daily trust reporter who attended ihiagwa ward, polling unit community school 2, voting had begun, but there are a lot of votes buying for a political party with N2,000 transfer.
The center for democracy and development (CDD) said in a pre-election press conference in Abuja on Friday that politicians are experimenting with new and innovative ways to engage in vote trading, according to the election analysis center (EAC).
During the Conference, the CDD reveals that though vote-trading was less prevalent during the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections, politicians devised new methods of vote buying.