[center]The objective of the study investigates the attitude of youths toward vote buying in elections with a particular focus on Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) and Lagos State University (LASU). The study was anchored by Social Exchange Theory. A survey research method was adopted while questionnaire was used to elicit responses from the respondents. A descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) was used with the aid of tables to analyzed the data collected. Findings show that majority of the respondents (93.6%) claimed that they were aware of vote selling and vote buying in Nigeria elections to a high extent. Most of the respondents (79.7%) pointed out that they never at a point sell their vote. Therefore, many of respondents (52.3%) don’t like vote buying in elections. Substantial number of the respondents (77%) claimed that media campaigns and NGOs awareness influenced them in not selling their vote. Equally, larger numbers of the respondents (56.8%) the common vote buying incentive usually offer during election s money. The study recommended that in order to successfully stop election fraud, including vote buying, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should build a strategic cooperation framework for effective monitoring of political parties’ campaign money while the media and civil society organizations must step up their voters education and information campaigns about the drawbacks of vote selling, particularly how it drives up election costs, encourages political corruption, and threatens good governance.[/center] [url]CLICK HERE TO READ MORE[/url]https://researchcage.com/2022/07/26/attitude-of-youths-toward-vote-buying-in-elections/