Tag: Vote-Buying

2023: One-year jail term, N500, 000 fine awaits vote buyers – INEC 

Aminu Imam

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that one-year imprisonment, or a fine of N500, 000, awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar, who read the Riot Act in an interview with newsmen, said the electoral commission is prepared to conduct all the elections with the BVAS machine to ensure free and fair elections. According to him, the machine will identify voters going to vote, and those who have…

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2023: Police vow to deploy X-squad, intelligence officers, others to arrest vote buyers

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Police Force have revealed that it will deploy X-squad, intelligence officers and investigators during the 2023 general election, to ensure that politicians moving on election days with tonnes of physical cash for vote-buying are apprehended and dealt with according to the provisions of the law. Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, gave the warning at a one-day stakeholders summit on addressing the influence of money in the forthcoming 2023 general election, which was held in Abuja yesterday. Represented by Assistant Inspector-General (AIG), Bala Ciroma, the IGP also…

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Ondo 2020: Massive vote-buying, breach of COVID-19 protocol characterizes election, say CDD, YIAGA Africa

Ishaku Yohanna

Two Civil Society Organisations, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and YIAGA Africa, have said the Ondo State governorship election was marred with vote-buying and inadequate compliance with COVID-19 protocol. In its preliminary statement on the conduct of the election, the CDD noted that there was a consistent pattern of vote-buying, where those engaged in the act adopted tactics to induce voters, while evading the watch of security officials and election observers. “CDD observers documented attempts by political actors to outspend one another by making available large sums disbursed to…

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