The assault followed the arrest of a man for allegedly masterminding a well-orchestrated vote-buying procedure at the polling unit situated at the Science Primary School, Bwari.
The team arrested the 30-year-old suspect and retrieved a list of beneficiaries he had already paid through an online banking app.
It was at the point of whisking the suspect away from the polling unit that the suspected hoodlums attacked, smashing the windshield of the commission’s patrol van.
They only retreated into their hideouts after the commission’s operative responded by releasing warning shots, before members of the Joint Task Force team, comprising the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Police and others, arrived at the scene.
The incident was immediately reported at the Bwari Police Station.
Similarly, some EFCC operatives on election monitoring duty at Unit 001, Mann Primary School, behind Chorobim Junction, were shot at by unknown persons in two black Prado Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and one white Hilux outside the polling unit, suspected to be buying votes.
The EFCC team responded, forcing them to flee the scene. The incident was formally reported to DCP Operations, Haruna Femi at the Imo State Police Command.
