Reports just reaching us indicate that yet to be identified hoodlums in Ajetachi in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi state have gone on the rampage.
Vanguard reports that the hoodlums whom were chanting war songs attacked voters and vandalised the ruling party Peoples Democratic Party campaign office in the area. It was gathered that military personnel were swiftly dispatched to the town to restore peace and order in the area.
Meanwhile, the state chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Ojonuba Simeon has claimed that the party’s polling agents and supporters in Kabba, headquarters of Kabba/Bunu LGA are been intimidated.As at the time of filing this report, the cause of the uprising before voting commenced could not be ascertained.
Speaking to Vanguard, the chairman alleged that the assailants were suspected to be PDP thugs, and pleaded with security operatives to come to the rescue of the party’s agents and supporters.
“We wish to call the attention of security agents to an orchestrated attack on our party agents by some thugs in Kabba,” he said.
Simeon further alleged that the thugs chased away the PPA agents and supporters from the polling units, saying they are no longer in the contest.
“The panic approach of the PDP is capable of causing tension if not arrested and normalcy restored. We are a law abiding party but we owe our agents and supporters an unconditional protection,” he said.
However, there was relative peace in Kogi central senatorial district as voters in Agassa, Ogaminana, Obangede and Ogori reportedly conducted themselves in peaceful manner.
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- Share on TwitteAlso expressing anxiety, the deputy governor of Kogi state, Architect Yomi Awoniyi who voted at ward 02, Ileteju Mopa, alleged that the APC might rig the poll. He said: “we are still afraid that APC will rig the election.”
- Awoniyi alleged that 10 vehicles loaded with heavily built men have arrived in Kogi from the south west.But, contrary to the deputy governor’s fears, Alhaji Yahaya Karaku and Alhaji Yahaya Bello have expressed confidence that the polls will be peaceful. They tasked security personnel to be battle ready in order to halt hoodlums from disrupting the election.
Election violence is very rampant in Nigeria because of the desperate politicians that we have in this part of the world.
The Nation reported that President Muhammadu Buhari while swearing-in the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and five National Commissioners of INEC in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, called for the prosecution of electoral offenders in the country.
But the president’s call is yet to gain momentum as the Independent National Electoral Commission in a report said it has not been able to successfully prosecute electoral offenders because it lacks the capacity and resources required for such task. The 2015 General Elections Report unveiled in Abuja, revealed that at the end of the voter registration exercise in 2011, about 870, 000 cases of registration offences were uncovered, Vanguard
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