STATE GOVERNMENT (BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSITION PROVISIONS) ACT

Section 108: Offences in respect of nomination papers, voters card and polling documents

1991Section 108 of 144Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Any person who-
(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to the officer charged with the conduct of an election any nomination paper, knowing the same to be forged ; or
(b) signs a nomination paper as a candidate in more than one constituency; or
(c) forges, counterfeits or fraudulently destroys any voter's card or the official mark on any voter's card or any statement of result; or
(d) without due authority, supplies any voter's card to any person;
(e) fraudulently takes out of the polling station any voter's card; or
(f) without due authority, destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any other documents then in use for the purpose of the election is guilty of an offence.
(2) Any attempt to commit any offence specified in this section shall be punishable in the same manner in which the offence is punishable.
(3) In any prosecution for an offence in relation to the nomination papers, polling documents and the marking instruments at an election held under this Act, the property in such polling documents may be stated to Commission.

Cite this section

Section 108, STATE GOVERNMENT (BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSITION PROVISIONS) ACT (1991).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/state-government-basic-constitutional-and-transition-provisions-act/section/108/