As Nigerians prepare for one of the country’s most decisive elections since 1999 to pick their president and federal lawmakers, Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, the lawmaker representing Gombe north under the All Progressives Congress (APC) has devised a new votes-buying technique to secure his re-election bid. Vote buying has been part of Nigeria’s electoral history, especially since the return of democracy in 1999. But it has assumed a more glaring dimension in recent elections.