BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Despite the heavy security presence and vote buying that characterised the just concluded re-run elections, electorates in Sokoto State seem to have made their preferences known as indicated in results declared by the various Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Returning Officers. The results...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Despite heavy security presence, the rerun election in Sokoto State has been described as a vote for cash by electorates, as they queued up in large numbers in Shagari and Yabo local government areas of the state to collect their own. While on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have arrested 3 persons suspected to be vote buyers in Sokoto State during the bye-elections monitoring exercise. The Commission in a statement on Saturday via it X handle, said 3 males...
An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday remanded one Wahab Hameed in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged conspiracy and vote buying during the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Justice Ismail Ijelu remanded the defendant after pleading guilty to a two-count charge...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested no fewer than 14 suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi. The Commission’s spokesperson, Mr. Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday...
The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Mr Udengs Eradiri, has the gubernatorial election held on Saturday in the state has been marred by massive vote-buying. “The level of vote-buying is overwhelming,” Eradiri said while commenting on the general conduct of the election. Eradiri who spoke at...
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....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it arrested 12 persons for alleged vote buying in Saturday’s supplementary polls in Kano and Katsina States. The EFCC Kano Zonal Commander, Faruk Dogondaji, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview that the suspects were arrested with N1.5...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), says it has deployed 100 armed operatives to combat vote buying in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa during Saturday’s supplementary elections in the states. The Kano Zonal Commander of EFCC, Mr Farouk Dogondaji, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 65 persons in 28 states have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over alleged voter inducement at the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections. The Commision’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujiaren, confirmed the arrest in the statement issued...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday in Ilorin paraded 19 suspected vote buyers arrested during the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The Acting Zonal Head of EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Michael Nzekwe, said that the suspects were paraded at the commission’s Head...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Saturday said it deployed 400 officers and operatives to prevent vote buying in governorship and Houses of Assembly elections. The ICPC Spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has cast his vote at polling unit 003, Sarkin Yara A in Daura, Katsina State, with a call to electorate to vote for their preferred candidates even if politicians tried to offer them money. The president, who briefly spoke to newsmen both in English and Hausa...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its personnel across the states where Governorship and State Assembly elections will take place on Saturday. The EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the move was...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Following the invalidation of the restrictions on the old Naira notes under the Naira redesign policy by the Supreme Court on Friday, The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Economic Financial Crime Commission...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it uncovered an alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders led by its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to exchange N22.5 billion stashed old Naira notes in Kano State for new ones to carry out vote buying during the general...
The spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to frustrate the cashless policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria to engage in vote buying in the 2023 election. The Senate on Thursday urged the CBN to extend its...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba says the police has devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election days with tonnes of cash for vote buying. Baba stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it won’t relent in its determination to prevent vote-buying in 2023 general election. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a day stakeholders’ summit on addressing the influence of money in the 2023 general election on Monday in Abuja. Yakubu...