The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on Tuesday said the commission arrested some suspects for vote buying during the just-concluded 2019 poll. He said the EFCC also seized cash running into several millions of Naira to prevent vote buying.
He said the anti-corruption agency also engaged law enforcement agencies with anti-money laundering mandate in neighboring countries to check incidence of illicit financial flows before, during and after the general elections.
Magu, who opened up at the National Policy Dialogue on Eradicating Electoral Corruption (Vote-Buying) at the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria said electoral corruption is the worst form of corruption because it undermines the will of the people and invests power in illegitimate hands.
Magu who spoke through the Secretary of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede said a government that pays its way into power is hardly expected to be accountable.
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