Court in Abuja against two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission for their alleged involvement in electoral malpractices.
Spokesman to the AGF, Salihu Isah, who disclosed this in a statement issued late Monday evening, said the five-count charge filed against the defendants was in relation to the complicity in electoral malpractices in the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections held in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo state.
“They were alleged to have conspired among themselves and with others now at large and upon receipt of an offer to procure the return of the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the House of Representatives elections for Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency in Edo State thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 123 of the Electoral Act 2010 .
“The Collation Officer is also accused to have received the sum of a hundred thousand naira as bribe for delivering the ward for his supposed paymaster, the PDP candidate; which is an offence punishable under Section 124 of the Electoral Act 2010 .
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