Section 123
Wrongful voting and false statementsAny person who—
(a) votes at an election or induces or procures any person to vote at an election, knowing that he or she or such person is prohibited from voting at the election;
(b) before or during an election, publishes any statement of the withdrawal of a candidate at such election knowing it to be false or reckless as to its truth or falsity; or
(c) before or during an election publishes any statement as to the personal character or conduct of a candidate calculated to prejudice the chance of election of the candidate or to promote or procure the election of another candidate and such statement is false and was published without reasonable grounds for belief by the person publishing it that the statement is true, commits, an offence and is liable on conviction to a maximum fine of N100,000 or imprisonment for a term of six months or both.
This provision prohibits and criminalises any act of wrongful voting and publication of false statement by anyone. Offences here include:
Voting, inducing, procuring a person to vote at an election knowing that such a person is prohibited from voting at the time of election
Publication/dissemination of fake /false statement about the withdrawal of a candidate
Knowingly propagating false news or statements regarding a candidate before or during an election to prejudice the candidate in question.
