The Balm In Gilead Foundation for Sustainable Development (BIGIF) has called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and other relevant institutions to step up efforts to deal with vote trading in accordance with the Electoral Act, 2022.

BIGIF, through its brainchild, Case Tracking and Response Centre (CTRC) stated this in its post-election statement on the Saturday elections, by Ms. Oluwatumininu Adedeji, Executive Director, BIGIF (Convener -CTRC) to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday.

The foundation noted with great delight that in line with it’s recommendations in 2022 after the Ekiti governorship election, the EFCC has resolved to doing the needful with a view to make elections more credible and acceptable to the electorate.

It further called on the Commission to make public the progress made with the prosecution of people arrested for vote buying in previous elections particularly during the Ekiti a