2023: CUPP Alerts On Digital Vote Buying Plot

The coalition of opposition political parties, CUPP, said it has intercepted a plan by some politicians to carry out digital vote buying in the 2023 presidential election.

The new plot of digital vote buying, termed operation wire-wire by the CUPP, will see politicians’ harvest names, account numbers, and voters identification numbers, bank verification numbers of citizens, arranged in tables for each polling unit on the understanding that money will be sent to each person by electronic means to purchase their votes.

In a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the spokesman of CUPP, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere claimed that information available to CUPP showed that bank details of over ten million voters have been harvested by agents of the ruling party nationwide.

He alleged that they used different platforms to harvest the bank details and in a plot designed soon after the Central Bank of Nigeria announced the policy to redesign the Naira

He said, “This plot has been exported to twenty-one other states of the federation requires the party’s agents harvesting names, account numbers and voters identification numbers, bank verification numbers of citizens and arranged in tables for each polling unit on the understanding that money will be sent to each person by electronic means to purchase their votes.”