By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja –
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its personnel to monitor the Saturday’s governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States.
The spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale stated this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
Mr. Oyewale said the aim of the deployment was to prevent politicians and their agents from engaging in vote buying during the elections.
Oyewale said that the exercise was part of the commission’s drive to checkmate electoral fraud and associated financial crimes.
“The monitoring operations are to tackle any form of voter’s inducement through vote buying, vote selling and other manipulations of the electoral processes at variance with the Electoral Act,” he said.
Oyewale said that the exercise was introduced as part of the efforts by the commission to rid the nation’s electoral system of corrupt practices.
He reiterated the commission’s determination to ensure that corrupt practices were not part of the country’s electoral process.
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