‘Selling Your Vote Is Like Selling Your Destiny’ – Lai Mohammed

‘Selling Your Vote Is Like Selling Your Destiny’ – Lai Mohammed

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has
advised Nigerians against selling their votes, saying that it’s like
“selling your destiny”.  

He spoke on Saturday at a workshop on broadcast media coverage for
the 2019 elections, organised by the National Broadcasting Commission
(NBC) in Abuja tagged ‘Fake News, Hate Speech, Vote and PVC Buying’.

Represented by Ms Grace Isu-Gekpe, the Permanent Secretary, Federal
Ministry of Information and Culture, the Information Minister said:
“Selling your vote or PVC is like selling your destiny and we should not
allow ourselves to sell our destiny. When you do that, you know what
that means.”  

Journalists were also advised to use their positions to work with
government in the effort to address the spread of fake news, hate speech
and vote buying.