Section 25: Offences in respect of nomination papers, etc.

(1) A person who-
(a) forces or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys a nomination paper, or delivers to the officer charged with the conduct of a primary election any nomination paper, or document knowing the same to be forged; or
(b) forges, counterfeits or fraudulently destroys any document or Party's membership card or the official mark on any such document or Party's card or any statement of result; or
(c) fraudulently takes out of the polling station a Party's membership card; or
(d) without due authority, destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any other documents then in use for the purposes of the primary election, is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this Act is liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years or to a fine of N5,000 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(3) An attempt to commit an offence specified in subsection (1) of this section shall be punishable in the same manner in which the offence is punishable.
(4) In a prosecution for an offence in relation to the nomination papers polling documents and the marking instruments at a primary election held under this Act, the property in the nomination papers, polling documents and marking documents may be stated to be in the Party concerned or in the officer charged with the conduct of the primary election.