Financial Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has encouraged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to "assume liability and end exemption for vote-purchasing and excessive impact in Nigeria's races by quickly guaranteeing the capture and arraignment of associated culprits with these lawbreaker acts in the Osun State governorship political decision.
There are reports of a shameless example of vote-purchasing and electing pay off in a few surveying units especially by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Osun Governorship political race directed on Saturday 16 July 2022. Vote exchanging was seen in a few surveying units.
In the letter dated 16 July 2022 and endorsed by SERAP delegate chief Kolawole Oluwadare, the association said: "INEC appears to have promoted an overall strategy of exemption for vote purchasing and unjustifiable impact in decisions by declining to indict thought culprits and their supporters.
SERAP said, INEC has a seriously great arrangement of abilities of its own to check and rebuff vote purchasing, and need not sit tight for different organizations prior to distributing its own viable method for counteraction and indictment.
As per SERAP, Nigerians depend on INEC to control vote purchasing, electing pay off and unnecessary impact in races however nothing will at any point change in the event that INEC won't seek after charges against thought culprits and their patrons.
SERAP likewise said, "The demonstrations of vote purchasing, electing pay off and unnecessary impact are plainly in opposition to the express arrangements of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as amended], the Electoral Act, and global guidelines."
The letter, read to some degree: "On the off chance that INEC neglects to act, vote purchasing, discretionary pay off and excessive impact would stay a super durable component of Nigeria's races in light of the fact that bad lawmakers and their supporters would keep on taking part in these crook acts without any potential repercussions.
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