Section 54: Personation and punishment for personation.

(1) Any person who at an election applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be the name of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such election, applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name or in the name of any other person, living or dead or of a fictitious person, shall be guilty of the offence of personation.
(2) Any person who, at an election, votes in the name of some other person whether that name be the name of a person living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such election votes a second time in his own name, or in the name of any other person living or dead or of a fictitious person shall be guilty of the offence of personation.
(3) Every person who is guilty of personation or aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of the offence of personation, shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding N1,000 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(4) A person charged with the offence of personation shall not be convicted except on the evidence of not less than two witnesses.