Section 63: Offences relating to statements of result.

Any person who, being a Presiding Officer or a Returning Officer at an election-(a) gives a certificate or statement of result which to his knowledge is false in any material particular; or
(b) perversely and without lawful excuse refuses to render any statement of result relating to that election to the officer to whom it is required to be delivered; or
(c) does anything that impedes or obstructs the proper counting or obtaining of the correct result of the election,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine of N5,000 or to both such fine and imprisonment.