The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it will capture individuals that enjoy vote-purchasing in the imminent race in Osun state.
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, said this on Thursday, August 23, while tending to columnists amid his visit to the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Osogbo.
Agbaje said vote-purchasing has kept on flourishing in Nigerian decisions since security specialists conveyed to surveying units have neglected to be determined in completing their obligations.
He noticed that vote-purchasing and offering are a portion of the constituent offenses disliked by the Electoral Act, saying in spite of that, the unlawful practice had proceeded with in light of the fact that security specialists had neglected to make captures and arraign the guilty parties.
Agbaje said INEC is humiliated by this new gear strategy, focusing on that they would do everything conceivable to stop vote-purchasing and offering amid the September 22 governorship decision in Osun State.
The REC said the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, had been holding gatherings with heads of different security organizations at the government level to provoke their faculty to be alive to their duties amid surveys.
He said he had likewise met with the Commissioner of Police in Osun State; Director, Department of State Services and the Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps to guarantee that no one was permitted to purchase and offer votes amid the Osun State race.
Agbaje said the commission is truly thinking about restricting voters from taking telephones inside the surveying stalls, saying this would keep them from snapping the ticket papers which they could show to vote purchasers as proof for installment.
He said the issue which the commission currently had was that a few gatherings were undermining to prosecute the INEC for infringement of their rights to utilize telephones inside voting work areas.
The REC, who is a resigned Director of the DSS, said he didn't see that as an infringement of right, saying a similar arrangement of individuals would happily conform to a mandate to turn off their telephones while boarding airplane.
To make races valid, he stated, Nigerians must be prepared to make penances, saying the INEC would not prohibit voters from utilizing telephones at the surveying units however would not enable them to snap their ticket papers so they would not exchange with them.
His words, "We at INEC are truly humiliated by the issue of vote purchasing and we don't need it to occur here in Osun. I can't envision that three security faculty would be at a surveying unit and voters would purchase and offering votes.
"The INEC executive has been going round to converse with DSS, the Police and the NSCDC and we have been holding an addressing with them here on the need to stop this pattern. INEC isn't upbeat about it.
"We will re-mastermind our work areas to make it troublesome for voters to demonstrate their tallies to anybody. In the event that we can't control vote-purchasing amid Osun decision, at that point it will be hard to stop it amid the 2019 general races.
"We will capture individuals and I will by and by go round and I will be upbeat on the off chance that we can capture only 100 people and guarantee that they are indicted", he said.
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