Abuja: Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday arrested 20 suspects for alleged electoral offences during the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) local government elections in Abuja, intensifying the agency’s crackdown on vote rigging and malpractice.
The commission’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
According to him, the suspects were arrested across the FCT for offences ranging from obstruction of officers to vote buying and vote selling, to the tune of N17,218,700.
”One of the suspects was arrested with a sum of N13.5 million in a car parked beside a polling booth in Kwali Local Government Area.
”Two of the suspects were arrested in Abaji; nine in Gwagwalada; four in Kuje, and the remaining four in Kwali,” he said.
According to Oyewale, the suspects will be charged in court upon the conclusion of investigations.
