33 Days To Polls, INEC, ICPC, EFCC Strategise Against Vote-buying

33 Days To Polls, INEC, ICPC, EFCC Strategise Against Vote-buying News

and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to check vote-buying in the forthcoming general elections.

Describing vote-buying as a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the country’s system, the electoral body said it has also sensitised youths in various villages in the country to monitor and report anyone involved in the act during the elections. INEC resident electoral commissioner in Rivers State, Johnson Alalibo Sinikiem, spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt during the opening ceremony of the 2023 correspondents’ week of the correspondents’ chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists .The theme of the correspondents’ week is “Media Vigilance Ahead of Peaceful 2023 Election in Rivers State.”

Sinikiem, who was represented by the Head, Voter Education and Publicity, Mark Usulo, said with the new Electoral Act, anyone found with a permanent voter’s card that does not belong to him or her, risks a jail term.He said the security agencies, especially the Nigerian Police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps have been briefed to watch for people in possession of PVCs that are not theirs.

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