As part of efforts to curb electoral fraud and financial crimes, operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos were deployed to local governments and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos where the State’s local government elections were held on Saturday, July 12, 2023.
The
monitoring
operations
aimed
to
prevent
any
form
of
voter’s
inducement
such
as
vote
buying,
vote
selling,
or
other
manipulations
that
violate
the
Electoral
Act.
Earlier,
while
addressing
the
officers
assigned
to
monitor
the
electoral
process,
,
the
Acting
Zonal
Director,
Lagos
Zonal
Directorate
2,
Assistant
Commander
of
the
EFCC,
ACE
1
Ahmed
Ghali,
reaffirmed
the
Commission’s
mandate
to
ensure
that
finances
are
not
misused
for
wrongdoing.
According
to
him,
“We
are
going
there
to
monitor
the
election
and
ensure
that
it
is
peaceful.”
Ghali
later
toured
several
polling
units
in
the
Ikeja,
Agege,
Surulere,
and
Apapa
local
government
areas.
Speaking
on
the
exercise
and
the
reports
from
the
Directorate’s personnel
on
duty,
he
said:
“The
exercise
has
been
peaceful.
We
have
not
received
any
news
of
vote
buying
in
any
of
the
polling
units
visited
so
far.
We
are
still
monitoring
until
voting
is
completed”.
Media & Publicity
July 12, 2025
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