They were convicted of “encouraging public corruption and public prostitution.”
The Incorporated Trustees of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had dragged INEC to court.
The men allegedly kidnapped the Benue Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, on December 4, 2022.
Top prosecutor Kim Foxx said she believes “justice has been served,” and that “Mr Kelly is potentially looking at never walking out of prison again”.
Nigerians of voting age living in the diaspora are seeking to enforce their fundamental rights to vote in the 2023 general elections.
The accused, 47-year-old Paul Adebayo, was remanded in a correction centre, pending advice from the state director of public prosecutions.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says it received 282 complaints about domestic violence in Kaduna in 2022.
“I seize the opportunity of this visit to appeal to Nigerians to please go to the designated polling units,” the INEC chair said.
The association said that it had failed to offer leadership to Nigerians as well as guidance for the advancement of the country.
