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Kogi Elections: INEC official presents 50k bribe offered by politicians

Bayo Wahab

November 17, 2019 1:12 PM

He presents the money while submitting the result of the local government he coordinated.

INEC official presents N50k bribe offered by politicians in Kogi (TheCable)

The gubernatorial and senatorial elections in Kogi state again showed how desperate some politicians could get to win an election.

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Some of them went as far as bribing INEC officials to manipulate the results of the election in their favour.

On Sunday, November 17, 2019, a collation officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state presented a N50,000 bribe the politicians offered to a presiding officer in Igalamela-Odolu local government area of the state during the November 16 election in Kogi.

The Cable reports that the collation officer presented the money at the INEC headquarters in the state while submitting the result of the local government he coordinated.

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Bayo Wahab Bayo Wahab is the News Editor at Pulse. He is a passionate journalist with core interest in special reports, development and investigative journalism.. Reach him via bayo.wahab@pulse.ng

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