Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has renewed calls for the establishment of an electoral offences tribunal before the 2015 general elections.
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Jega made the call during a debate on ethics and elections organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on Tuesday in Abuja.
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The chairman said the tribunal would help restore sanity to the country's electoral process and deter people from committing electoral offences.
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Jega said: "I was privileged to serve in the Justice Muhammad Lawal Uwais-led Committee and I know we made a recommendation for the establishment of a tribunal to deal with the impunity in the way electoral offences are being committed in Nigeria.
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"We need to do something unique and that is to establish an electoral offences tribunal which will be saddled with the responsibility of arrest, investigation and prosecution of offenders."
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Jega said that in the 2011 general elections, the commission detected 870,000 cases of multiple registrations out of the 73.5 million voters registered.