Abdulrasheed Bawa, the chairperson of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says some politicians are planning to buy
votes by distributing items instead of cash.
Speaking on Wednesday in an interview on Channels Television,
Bawa said the anti-graft agency is ready to arrest those caught buying votes
during Saturday’s polls.
Ahead of the general election, stakeholders have raised
concerns that vote buying could mar the integrity of the election.
However, when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced
the naira redesign policy, it was viewed as a way to tackle vote buying.
In a recent address, President Muhammadu Buhari said the
naira redesign policy has minimised the influence of money on Nigeria’s politics.
Speaking on Wednesday, the EFCC chair asked Nigerians to
cooperate with the agency in addressing vote-buying.
“Of course, we have intel that a lot of people have bought
some items that they want to use to buy votes in kind not in cash. All of these
things are out there. We will watch out for [them],” he said.
“Politicians are also
Nigerians. They are professionals and some of them turned into politicians. We
(EFCC) have our own ways of doing our things.”
On the naira note scarcity, Bawa said some of the new naira
notes were hoarded.
“Some of these monies that have been printed will all come
out this Saturday after the election because some of them are hoarded and it
will be distributed around,” he said.
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