Read full details of punishment given to INEC staff who violated Electoral Act

  • All the staff who have been found wanting in the past 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have been sanctioned
  • The sanction was handed to the staff – INEC staff, ad-hoc staff – by the chairman of the commission Mahmood Yakubu
  • Yakubu said that those involved in any form of electoral misconduct will not be participating in the Saturday, March 11 elections

The leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has banned all staff found negligent in the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections from partaking in the March 11 governorship and state House of Assemblies elections.

Daily Trust reports that the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, while having a meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Abuja on Saturday, March 4, disclosed this.