The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC calls for decisive actions against electoral offenders in the country.
The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu said made the call at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Stakeholders’ Forum on Future of Elections in Nigeria, organised by a Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Abuja.
Yakubu, who was represented by INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye said the commission was in full support of the establishment of Electoral Offences Commission to punish offenders.
The INEC Boss said that the commission was set to design strategies to checkmate the act of vote buying and selling. He noted that vote buying and vote selling did not only undermine the cardinal democratic principles of representation, accountability and participation but compromised the inalienable rights of voters to free choice.
