The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Saturday arrested some All Progressives Congress, APC, party agents for alleged involvement in electoral malpractices otherwise known as vote buying in the ongoing Ekiti governorship election.
The EFCC nabbed the suspects said to be APC agent for vote buying at Ola Oluwa Grammar School along Ilawe road Ado Ekiti.
The Network gathered that the suspects were caught on the spot with monies said to be used to buy voters when Segun Oni, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the ongoing governorship election in Ekiti State raised an alarm on the issue of inducing voters with money.
The operatives of the Commission picked up the suspects during the voting process in the morning while trying to induce voters who have come to excercise their franchise at the polling units.
It was gathered that following the alarmed made by Oni, the operatives immidiately moved to the scene and arrested the suspects and paraded and detained the suspects at the Oke Ori Omi Area Division of the Nigerian Police Force.
The operatives later moved to another polling units where some persons were caught with a book containing details of voters of certain voting area and made similar arrest.
The suspects were later paraded at the Oke Ori Omi Area Division of the Nigerian Police Force.
The EFCC was drafted to the Ekiti State gubernarorial election as part of security agencies deployed to monitor the election.
Recall that during the two primaries of the two major political parties, the PDP and the APC, the operatives stormed the primary grounds to monitor the presidential primaries against buying of the delegates’votes.
