LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT
Section 66: Polling day offences.
(1) No person shall, on the date or dates upon which a poll is taken in an election in respect of a Local Government Council-
(a) convene, hold or attend any public meeting in that Local Government Area;
(b) operate any megaphone, amplifier or public address apparatus in that Local Government Area for the purpose of making announcements concerning the election:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the operation of any such apparatus, by an officer appointed under this Act, for the purpose of making official announcements relating to the election.
(2) No person shall on the date or dates on which a poll is taken at any polling station commit any of the following acts within the polling station or in any public or private place within a distance of two hundred metres of the polling station-
(a) canvassing for votes;
(b) soliciting the vote of any voter;
(c) persuading any voter to vote for a particular candidate;
(d) persuading any voter not to vote at the election;
(e) wearing, exhibiting or tendering any notice, sign, token, symbol, slogan, badge, photograph or party card referring to the election; or
(f) shouting slogans concerning the election.
(3) No candidate or other person with the connivance of a candidate shall, whether on payment or otherwise, use, hire or procure any vessel or vehicle for the conveyance of any voter (other than the candidate himself or his agent) to or from any polling station.
(4) No person shall bring alcoholic liquor into a polling station or a place being used for the counting of votes or shall consume alcoholic liquor in any such place.
(5) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N500 or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Cite this section
Section 66, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT (1989).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/local-government-basic-constitutional-and-transitional-provisions-act/section/66/