The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says no fewer than 65 persons have been arrested for alleged voter inducement in the course of the Governorship and State Assembly elections across Nigeria on Saturday.
The EFCC said the suspects were arrested across the 28 states where governorship elections were held.
In a statement on Saturday, EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said 20 of the suspects were arrested by the Commission’s operatives from the Ilorin Zonal Command, while 13 were held at the Kaduna Zonal Command.
“The teams monitoring the polls in the Port Harcourt Zone arrested a total of 12 people for various offences bordering on inducing voters with money to vote their preferred candidates, while the Uyo Zonal Command made four arrests in Calabar,” the statement read.
“The remaining suspects were arrested in Gombe, Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger states. Those arrested in Kaduna consist of 10 males and three females. They were apprehended by operatives working on intelligence or by chance.”
