Section 18: Requirement of orderliness.

(1) An Electoral Officer, a Returning Officer or any other Party official (by whatever name called) appointed for the purpose of the conduct of the primary elections and every Poll Watcher, Polling Agent or Presidential aspirant in attendance at a polling station or place of voting or at the counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaining the orderliness of the voting.
(2) No Electoral Officer, Returning Officer, Party Official, Poll Watcher Polling Agent or Presidential aspirant shall, except for some purposes authorised by law, communicate before the poll is closed to any person any information as to the name or number on the Party register of members of any voter who has or has not voted at the place of voting.
(3) No person shall-
(a) interfere with any voter while in the processof voting ; or
(b) otherwise obtain or attempt to obtain in the place of voting; information as to the Presidential aspirant for whom a voter :in that place is about to vote or has voted ; or
(c) communicate at anytime to any person any information obtained in a place of voting as to the Presidential aspirant for whom a voter in that place is about to vote or has voted.
(4) If a person contravenes any of the provisions of this section; he is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years or a fine of N5,000 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(5) The words "while in the process of voting" as used in subsection (3) (a) .of this section means the period starting from the commencement of accredition till the end of poll."