CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The concept of stomach infrastructure is not a new entrant into the country’s political lexicon but rather a renewed strategy in the country’s new political dispensation. Stomach infrastructure is a way of inducing potential voters to support a particular candidate in an election. It may take various forms for instance, distributing food items, money and edibles to the people. The renewed strategy {stomach infrastructure } crept into the political dictionary in this dispensation after the Ekiti state governorship election of June 21, 2014 when voters were given gifts and other foodstuff to vote in certain direction. Distributing foodstuff during campaigns in Nigeria did not start with the Ekiti election, it has been happening in many parts of the country but it was heightened during and after the Ekiti state election. Stomach infrastructure is simply the system by which political patronage is dispensed to various groups in a particular society. This pat
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