The Labour Party candidate in the governorship election in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri, has reportedly lost his polling unit at Agudama-Ekpetiama to Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Udengs who expressed dissappointment over the conduct of voters, alleged that massive vote-buying took place at the polling units across the state.
Part of his statement reads,
“We have a long way to go with this country and money politics, I thought I had found a solution but I was wrong, I did not come into this race to buy votes.
“I’m disappointed not on the electoral process alone but on the people themselves because I thought that the people understand now. The people have seen the unclothedness of poverty and neglect on them in terms of leadership so I thought they will play along but I feel very sad because probably I thought that would have defined the voting pattern but I was fooled.
“People don’t care about the educational situation, people don’t care about the economic situation. All people care about is money in their hand and that is why I misjudged the people. Before I decided to embark on this journey.
“I thought that people going through this process would have been able to express it in the ballot. Unfortunately vote buying was the order of the day and the people were encouraging it.
