48 hours to presidential election, EFCC boss exposes secret plot of politicians

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that intelligence reveals that several politicians have planned to buy votes during the election.

Speaking during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, February 22, Bawa noted that these politicians are stockpiling old notes to buy votes o Saturday.

He stated that EFCC officials have been deployed to monitor the polls across the 36 states and the Capital.

Adding that arrests will be made for any one caught in the act of vote buying. The chairman cautioned the public to report any person involved in buying, selling votes

Bawa said;

“We have intelligence that a lot of politicians have bought some items that they will use to buy votes in kind and not in cash. But we are prepared for any situation and will not hesitate to arrest anyone caught in the act. We will watch out for all these things on election day.

“I don’t want to say only governors are hoarding naira notes, there are public servants out there doing the same thing or some businessmen with questionable characters are still having these funds in their homes. So, I don’t want to say governors are these but I will say that public servants, either retired or serving and some businessmen with questionable characters are on our radar.

“The biggest hurdle is if Nigerians don’t buy into what we are doing but I believe once we are united, we would be able to take inadequacies out of our system.”

BS