Osun Guber: Make fight against vote buying major focus — INEC to journalists

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has called connected media practitioners successful Osun State to marque the combat against ballot buying a large absorption of their sum ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election.

The entreaty was made during a one-day Media Stakeholders’ Forum held successful Osogbo on Tuesday, wherever the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Malam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, urged journalists to analyse and exposure electoral malpractice.

Represented by the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, Haruna described ballot buying arsenic the astir disturbing contented observed during the June 20, 2026 Ekiti State governorship election, alleging that governmental actors and their agents offered currency to voters astatine polling units and, successful immoderate instances, distributed numbered vouchers redeemable distant from voting centres.

He said journalists should stitchery grounds susceptible of supporting prosecution by documenting incidents with precision. 

“Reporters should seizure names, locations, amounts progressive and the operation of coordination successful their investigations,” helium said, adding that specified reports would str...