Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos 


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it will continue to work with relevant agencies in the country towards ensuring that vote-buying and inducement to voters during elections are reduced to the barest minimum.


Speaking on the incident of vote buying that was witnessed in some polling units during last weekend's governorship election in Ekiti, Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said it was heartwarming to see security agents, especially men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) apprehending some of the perpetrators.


Oyekanmi who said the proactive steps taken by the commission has greatly helped in curbing the menace howrver denied the claim that vote buying was rampant during the Ekiti election, saying it only took place in few polling units out of the entire 2,445 polling units across the state.


He said "I don’t agree with the notion that vote buying was “very rampant” during the just concluded Ekiti Governorship Election. There are 2445 polling units across the 16 local governments in the state. How many of them witnessed vote buying?"


"However, some vote buying and selling did take place. The Commission took some proactive measures against vote buying in the past, which included banning the use  cell phones or photographic equipment in the polling booths, reconfiguring the booths and changing the position of the ballot boxes".


"In addition, the Commission invited the EFCC and the ICPC to join the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES). It was heartwarming to see some EFCC and Civil Defence officers move against voter buyers during the election".


"The Commission will continue to do the needful to curb the Vice".

bennybuhari:
With Atiku and Tinubu as presidential candidates, 2023 election will witness vote buying of the highest scale. I suspect Peter Obidient too will have no choice than to join

Eriokanmi:
The governor-elect too should be arrested. Only on this account would the sane Nigerians be convinced the EFCC isn't partisan.

NaughtyBrainiac:
It won't stop them from buying votes in the coming elections.


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Eriokanmi:
The governor-elect too should be arrested. Only on this account would the sane Nigerians be convinced the EFCC isn't partisan.

NaughtyBrainiac:
It won't stop them from buying votes in the coming elections.


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MMWandali:
Which culprit?
The real moneybags are still out there free

It's like cutting the branch and leaving the roots and main trunk to thrive

hotplate:
it's not enough to arrest, Inec should wake up to their duties. They are guidelines, rules concerning election as it relates to vote buying. let the candidates and their party involved in it be disqualified .. if this happens 2 to 3 times all parties will conduct their selg inline with the rules