A former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has lamented the attitude of the Nigerian masses towards Vote-buying and selling during elections.
In a post on his verified X handle on Monday, Sani said the
masses would even expect someone who educates them against the act to give them
some money after the sensitization section.
“Whenever you are giving a sermon against vote buying and
vote selling, the masses will just be staring at you, eager for you to finish,
so that you give them ‘something’ for transport and to ‘chop’.
“If you fail to do that, they will loath you for wasting
their time with grammar,” he said.
Responding, an X user simply identified as Bendollar said,
“That’s the brutal truth of material poverty colliding with moral lectures:
when survival is on the line, ethics sound like noise.
“You can’t preach civic virtue to people whose immediate
question is what do I eat tonight? They don’t hate the message, they resent the
mismatch between words and reality.
“Until basic needs are met, principles feel like grammar
exercises delivered by someone who gets to go home comfortably.”
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