Gov Polls: EFCC Sends Officers to Kogi, Bayelsa, Imo

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deployed its officers to Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states where governorship elections are to be held on Saturday, November 11, 2023. According to the commission, the presence of the monitoring officers is to tackle any form of voters' inducement through vote buying, vote selling, and other manipulation of the electoral processes at variance with the Electoral Act. The commission disclosed this in a post on its Facebook page on Friday. The commission noted that the deployment of its men was to checkmate electoral fraud across the three states where elections would be held. The commission's statement titled, 'EFCC in Election Monitoring Operations', read in part, "In its drive to checkmate electoral fraud and associated financial crimes, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deployed its officers to Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states where governorship elections are holding on Saturday, November 11, 2023. "The commission’s monitoring operations are to tackle any form of voter’s inducement through vote buying, vote selling and other manipulation of the electoral processes at variance with the Electoral Act".