Nigeria Decides 2023: INEC Creates Fresh Obstacles For Vote Buying

<h4>Nigeria Decides 2023&colon; INEC Creates Fresh Obstacles<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission&comma; INEC&comma; has punctured candidates&&num;8217&semi; age long strategic mode of vote buying&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Over the years&comma; desperate candidates would compel willing vote sellers to produce photo evidence of who they voted for before payment&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To nip such clever means in the bud&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Independent National Electoral Commission&comma; INEC&comma; has declared that anybody who goes into the voting cubicle with a photographic device or a telephone to capture his choice of the party will be jailed upon prosecution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The National Commissioner and Chairman of INEC Voter Education and Publicity Committee&comma; Barrister Festus Okoye&comma; made this known during a news programme on Channels Television&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Okoye made it clear that photographic recording or capturing device is not allowed at the voting cubicle&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to him&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no one will be allowed to take his or her phone to the voting cubicle&period; It is prohibited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Officials of the ICPC&comma; EFCC and security agencies will be on hand to monitor and ensure that the law in that respect is not violated&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;