EFCC Arrests 20 for Suspected Electoral Fraud in FCT Council Polls

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday, February 21, 2026 arrested 20 suspects for sundry electoral offences in the just- concluded Federal Capital Territory, FCT, local government elections. The suspects were arrested across the FCT, for offences ranging from vote buying, vote selling to obstruction of officers to the tune of N17, 218, 700. 00k( Seventeen Million, Two Hundred and Eighteen Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira only). One of the suspects was arrested with a sum of N13,500,000( Thirteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) in a car parked beside a…

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Source	EFCC
Collection	Anti-corruption and elections
Kind	Document
Publisher	Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Date	2026-02-23
Type	press-release
Found at	https://www.efcc.gov.ng/news/efcc-arrests-20-for-suspected-electoral-fraud-in-fct-council-polls
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`efcc:news:13864`

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EFCC Arrests 20 for Suspected Electoral Fraud in FCT Council Polls. EFCC, 2026. Vero Archive, record efcc:news:13864.