The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Monday said the intervention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC gave credibility to the 2019 general elections.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC Mutiu Agboke, in Oyo State, made the disclosure on in Ibadan during a thank-you visit to the Ibadan Zonal Office of the anti-graft agency.

It could be recalled that the EFCC played a vital role in monitoring illicit movement of cash and vote buying during the last general elections.

Agboke said that the monitoring of vote buying and selling in the last general elections across the country prevented the exercise from being compromised.

He said that war waged against vote buying by the anti-graft agency checkmated vote compromises in the election and gave it more credibility.

Agboke said that apart from playing laudable roles during the buildup to the elections, the EFCC was there throughout the exercise.

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