Once you manage to detach yourself from the political fever, even if only briefly, you start to see how depressing the situation is. But for cynical politicians, poverty has the benefit of reducing the market price of a vote. A typical Nigerian politician wants to buy votes in bulk so all that is required for the price of votes to come down, is for the politicians to do nothing. Their votes are already cheap even before a price has been called for it. This fundamental problem of a political system that is incentivised to cheapen votes as much as possible is not going to go away by itself anytime soon.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2018 01:07 UTC