{"id":58974,"date":"2019-05-06T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=50857"},"modified":"2019-05-06T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:22:23","slug":"how-i-was-offered-money-to-compromise-2019-elections-in-kwara-rec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/how-i-was-offered-money-to-compromise-2019-elections-in-kwara-rec\/","title":{"rendered":"How I was offered money to compromise 2019 elections in Kwara \u2014 REC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madami, who hails from Gurara Local Government Area, of the state made this known to newsmen after his daughter\u2019s wedding in Minna.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was pressure by politicians who offered me money to compromise the 2019 general elections in Kwara state but I stood my ground and refused to give in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nature of our job at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is too tempting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is left between you and God to do the right thing and keep your integrity or compromise and lose your integrity. You may even go to jail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He decried money politics and a situation where politicians think they can buy peoples conscience to do their dirty work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe politicians have money and some of them feel that they can buy anybody with the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a matter of integrity, it is left for you to be careful and work transparently to keep your integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I did in Kwara state before the elections was to go on air and tell the people that no amount of money can buy me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made them to understand that their votes will count and was not ready to compromise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The REC however said that the 765 cases before the elections petition tribunal across the country owed to lack of internal democracy by political parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the various political parties respect their constitutions and do the needful you will have less to worry about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said that INEC was the most organised agency in the country because all the systems are working.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the personnel and departments are functioning, in other words INEC is working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Madami said that one of his major challenges in the state was to unite the staff of the commission for optimal performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank God that today my staff are doing well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said that his ultimate goal was to make Nigeria and INEC proud by transparently discharging his duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malam Garba Madami, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara on Monday said that he resisted money offered by politicians to compromise the just concluded 2019 general elections in the state. Madami, who hails from Gurara Local Government Area, of the state made this known to newsmen after his daughter\u2019s wedding in Minna. \u201cThere was pressure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2507,716,3325,3326],"class_list":["post-58974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2019-elections","tag-inec","tag-malam-garba-madami","tag-rec","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}