Section 12: Offering inducement, etc.

(1) No Presidential aspirant shall by himself or by any other person on has behalf during a political campaign, directly or indirectly, offer inducement in any form whatsoever or howsoever to a person for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to support or refrain from supporting the Presidential aspirant or any other person.
(2) No person shall by himself or by any other person on his behalf directly or indirectly, make use of or threaten to make use of any force violence or restrain or inflict or threaten to inflict by himself or by any other person any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or loss upon or against any person during any, political campaign in order to induce or compel any person to support or refrain from supporting a Presidential aspirant.
(3) No Presidential aspirant shall by himself or by any person on his behalf, directly or indirectly give, lend, or agree to give or lend or offer, or promise to produce or, to endeavour to procure any money or valuable consideration during or in the course of any electioneering campaign to any person in order to induce such person to support or refrain from supporting the Presidential aspirant or any other person.
(4) No person shall accept any form of inducement from a Presidential aspirant or his agent as specified in subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this section.
(5) A person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section is guity of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N20,000 or imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and imprisonment and in addition to the punishment specified in this Section, shall be disqualified from contesting that primary election and any subsequent elections for a period of notless than five years.