Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses. - If the State Election

Commission is satisfied that a person -

1. (a) has failed to lodge an account of election expense within the prescribed time and manner and has no sufficient reason or justification for such failure; or (b)The accounts lodged are false; (c)Has incurred election expenses exceeding the prescribed limit] the State Election Commission shall, by order published in the Gazette, declare him to be disqualified and any such person shall be disqualified for a period of five years from the date of the order.