The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it will not tolerate vote buying by Politically Exposed Persons during the forthcoming general elections.
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Amidst the many controversies trailing the forthcoming general elections, the issue of vote buying and hate speeches have been identified as the major cause of tension and national insecurity, which impede free and fair elections in Nigeria.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday raised the alarm over new a new method of vote buying being devised to undermine the voting process.
Dr Musa Abubakar, the Acting Chairman of ICPC, made the declaration at a one-day ‘National Campaign Against Vote Buying and other Electoral Malpractices’ organised by ICPC in conjunction with the Youth Alive Foundation.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to intensify voter education at the grassroots as part of efforts to discourage vote-buying and hawking during the 2019 elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has introduced a new measure on ballot paper handling at polling units to check vote buying in the 2019 general elections.
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday in Abuja, expressed concern over increased incidences of vote buying in the country, ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Owie who represented Edo South Senatorial District between 1999 and 2003, said this in Benin while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the 2019 general elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party has described the claims of vote-buying at its national convention as false and completely unfounded.
The All Progressives Congress in Yobe says it is investigating allegation of vote-buying by a governorship aspirant ahead of the party’s primaries.
Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, the governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun, says voting-buying has negatively affected the just concluded election in the state.
The European Union Election Observers say they will monitor Saturday’s governorship election in Osun with an eye on vote-buying.
The OurMumuDonDo civil society group led by Charles Oputa,a.k.a Charly boy , on Monday held a public campaign against vote- buying in Osun, ahead of the governorship election on September, 22.
Executive Director, YIAGA-Africa, Samson Itodo, made the call at the Watching the Vote Series with the theme: “Ending the Scourge of Vote Buying and Selling in Nigerian Elections” in Abuja.
The clerics made the plea in a communique issued at the end of the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria in Sokoto, held from September 6 to September 14.
The Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mutiu Agboke, on Thursday said 10 persons had been arrested and undergoing prosecution over allegation of vote-buying in the just concluded Ekiti State governorship election.
Lecky disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Auchi, in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, on Monday.
Although, policemen and other security agents were seen at the police stations, they looked the other way, while thugs terrorised people.
An election observer and monitoring group, Yiaga Africa, has described vote buying as a new way of elections rigging by politicians in Nigeria.
The Chairperson, Legal Services of the INEC, May Agbamuche-Mbu, made the appeal in Lagos at two-day training for legal officers of the commission and police officers on the prosecution of electoral offences.