{"id":95345,"date":"2022-05-26T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95345"},"modified":"2022-05-27T00:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T23:33:34","slug":"2023-elections-efcc-told-to-arrest-failed-candidate-asking-delegates-to-refund-their-monies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-elections-efcc-told-to-arrest-failed-candidate-asking-delegates-to-refund-their-monies\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Elections: EFCC told to arrest failed candidate asking delegates to refund their monies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Ex-media aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest any failed candidate of any political party who is asking delegates to refund their monies after losing election ticket ahead of the 2023 general poll.<\/p>\n<p>Omokri made the plea in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He said such acts are evidence of electoral fraud contrary to both the Electoral Act and the Money Laundering Act of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted, \u201cIf the EFCC knows its job, then every failed candidate who is asking delegates to refund their monies, all parties, should be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is prima facie evidence of electoral fraud and is contrary to both the Electoral Act and the Money Laundering Act of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the EFCC won\u2019t prosecute those established to have given monies to delegates in order to influence their votes, then I call on Nigerians to surreptitiously video them and for the @UKinNigeria, @USinNigeria and @EUinNigeria to note such people and deny them visas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is coming less than a few days after Adam Namadi, son of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, confirmed receiving a refund from delegates after losing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives ticket for Kaduna North Federal Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Reports earlier emerged that drama ensued when Namadi, who allegedly gave each delegate N2 million and promised to add N1.5 million if given the ticket, asked the delegates to refund the money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-media aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest any failed candidate of any political party who is asking&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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