INEC: If Attacks on Our Offices Persist, Polls May Be Jeopardised •Armed forces to conduct show of force across the country •Vote buying: INEC, NFIU, EFCC, Police, ICPC, others read riot act to political parti
•Vote buying: INEC, NFIU, EFCC, Police, ICPC, others read riot act to political parties, candidates•CBN cash withdrawal limits must be effectively, efficiently enforced’Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Professor Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday, declared that should the present state of insecurity and attacks on offices of the commission continue, next year’s general election might be threatened.
At another workshop on, “Addressing the influence of money on the 2023 general election,” held yesterday in Abuja, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit , Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission , and INEC warned political parties and politicians against vote-buying, saying if caught they would face the full weight of the law.
The INEC chairman explained, “In our Abeokuta South Local Government office in Ogun Sate, we recorded so much losses, we have moved to a new location. In Izzi in Ebonyi State, we are moving to a new location. “So we do not want this attacks to continue, we don’t want them to persist but we have the assurance of various security agencies that they are going to dominate the environment and neutralise some of these attacks we are having and that it will not continue.
In his submission at the workshop, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, said, “The Nigerian Army would conduct a show of force with other agencies, conduct stop and search operations, mobile patrols in vulnerable areas, escort INEC officials, if need be, and do all that is required to ensure peaceful conduct of the election.”
Bashir said, “We must flush bad elements out of our electoral system in order to maintain sanity, credibility and public confidence in our electoral institution. Thus, we must be prepared and be willing to use all appropriate legitimate instruments of national power to confront our political and electoral challenges in a proactive and strategic manner.
He stressed, “We will also activate our flag up action on all politicians and the accounts of political parties. With the activation and flag up of the accounts, any withdrawals will be alerted and the report will be sent to the relevant agencies for action. In his speech, Chairman of EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, represented by his Chief of Staff, Hadiza Gamawa, said all instituted measures against vote buying would be applied during the election period.
According to the INEC chairman, “The negative role of money in elections goes to the very heart of our democracy. It destroys the very basis of democratic elections, which is that citizens should freely choose those who exercise power on their behalf. “But then, there would be an opportunity to reapply after four years. Citizens’ choices must never be subverted by the negative use of money.”
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