Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has blamed voters for demanding money from politicians thus encouraging vote buying.
Edochie made the assertion on Tuesday while reacting to a statement by skit maker, Debo Adedayo popularly known as Mr Macaroni, in which he urged Nigerians not to sell their votes.
Mr Macaroni in a tweet earlier wrote: “Any politician offering you money in exchange for your vote is not going to serve you. They are only investing. If they get into office, they will loot the Nation’s treasury which rightfully belongs to the people. Do not vote in thieves and looters! They are destroyers.”
However, on the contrary, Yul claimed it is Nigerians who demand money.
The actor explained that he used to think that politicians were the ones offering money until he got into politics and realised people were the ones demanding money.
He said, “I used to think it’s the politicians that offer money until I joined politics and ran for office. “My eyes opened.
furthermore, he disclosed that Its mainly the people that demand money from the politicians and put them in a tight corner where they must find money by all means to share or fail.”
Truth Live News reports that vote-buying has been a major challenge in elections across the country as gullible policians buy their way through to power and care less about the plight of the people.