8.This infrastructure called ‘stomach’
The term crept into our lexicon after the Ekiti State election of June 21 and as a result of the embarrassment generated by that trend, politicians try as much as possible to avoid it, even though it was real. The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is in Ile-Ife; Omisore, a top contender is from Ife and truly he won convincingly in Ife but not OAU, which had 10 polling units.
The PDP candidate had reportedly made several attempts to resolve his estranged relationship with the university community but to no avail. On this day, he needed their votes seriously. The alleged donation of a bus to the student union did not achieve the result and 10 polling units cannot be left like that, hence stomach infrastructure could have just been a good weapon. A vehicle containing bags of rice was brought into the school premises.
It belonged to the students but they had to work for it. So they struck a deal: give us your vote and this would be yours. Some students fell for the bait yet that could not give them victory, Omisore lost to Aregbesola by a very low margin and they decided to take away the goodies because the students did not fulfill their own end of the bargain. But trust Nigerian students, not even a bag of rice was taken out of the campus. Spirit of aluta!
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