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, 2025
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”.
In Lagos 1, Zonal Director and Chief of
Staff to the Executive Chairman, Commander of the EFCC, CE Michael
Nzekwe also charged officers deployed for the exercise to be civil,
professional and forthright in monitoring the elections. He led
operatives to monitor polling activities in several key areas across the state.
Their visible presence at the grassroots level
underscored the Commission’s unwavering commitment to
promoting transparency, accountability and institutional vigilance in Nigeria’s
electoral processes.
