Nigeria, June 20 -- Reports from across Ekiti State indicate that party agents are deploying various tactics to induce voters in the ongoing governorship election on Saturday.

At about 11:30 a.m., PREMIUM TIMES reporters monitoring the election observed that party agents in Ise-Ekiti and Emure-Ekiti were using numbered slips instead of cash to facilitate vote buying.

The agents were seen asking voters to display their marked ballot papers as proof of their voting preference before issuing the numbered slips.

Rather than distributing cash directly at the polling units, some agents reportedly gave voters numbers after they had cast their ballots, with the numbers believed to be linked to subsequent payments.

In a separate incident, an a...