Entertainment | Gist | Hollywood | Events | Celebrity Gossips!!!
Monday, April 13, 2015
Thugs hold INEC officials hostage, demand result sheets
No fewer than 300 suspected hoodlums attacked some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Oyo State, on Sunday in Ogbomoso, taking them hostage and demanding to see result sheets before they would release them.Our correspondent learnt that the INEC officials, who were the collation and electoral officers attached to Surulere Local Government Area, were held hostage by the gun-wielding thugs for more than 30 minutes.
The hoodlums, who reportedly had other weapons like cutlasses, clubs, machetes and charms, ambushed the INEC convoy in front of the Ogbomoso South Local Government secretariat, demanding to see the result sheets and other sensitive details of the conducted polls.
It was gathered that the thugs, who were said to be working for a political party, however, released the two officials, after they had shown them the local government result sheets.
Narrating their ordeal at the INEC secretariat on Sunday afternoon, the victimised collation officer, Dr Muyiwa Akinade, said the policemen accompanying them became helpless as the thugs outnumbered the security officials and also carried dangerous weapons.
He said, “We had to show them the election results before they let us go. We were held hostage for about 30 minutes. We were already on our way to the secretariat when we were ambushed in Ogbomoso town.
“Apart from their weapons, they were about 500 and some of them were smoking heavily. The policemen with us could not help as the hoodlums outnumbered them. After they were satisfied with the result sheets, they let us go. It was horrible. Our lives were at stake.”
In the result sheets read out by the INEC workers, the Labour Party pulled the most votes with 9,675, while the ruling All Progressives Congress came second with 5, 284.
Violence was also recorded in the Saki West Local Government Area of the state which led to the cancellation of election in two polling units. The units were Unit 10, Ward 6 and Unit 7, Ward 7.
Our correspondent learnt that hoodlums invaded the units and unleashed mayhem during which the voting exercise was disrupted.
Policemen from the Saki Police Division were said to have arrived the scene and arrested the rampaging thugs. A police source added that the suspects are now in custody.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
TRENDING
-
Nigerian swinger, 35 year old Edmund Echukwu (pictured left) died after drowning in a swimming pool at a swingers' party in an upmar...
-
He spent the night with popular transgender Shauna Brooks who shared the pic on her instagram page. Shauna was born male but removed hi...
-
A Georgia man has recovered $10,000 worth of lottery tickets he had thrown away in the trash. Multiple media outlets report that Cedric...
-
According to the person who shared the pictures on twitter, these are alleged Boko Haram members disguised as women. They had an accident...
-
The Agatu people of Benue State, under the aegis of Agatu Network Forum, have called on the Federal Government to protect them, saying they...
-
An adviser to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba, represented the South-East at the last National Conference. In this interview,...
-
Unilag's Non-Teaching staff protested today at the school's Senate Building over months of not getting their salaries. Photo cre...
-
NIGERIANS are determined to save their country. They may never get credit for the efforts they make to get the country going, but there ...
-
Chris's Mum is so proud of him and supports him in whatever he does. She says no child is a mistake and that Royalty will be complete...
-
Nigeria is currently losing over N400 billion to smuggled poultry products every year, New Telegraph has learnt, Already, the spate of smu...
No comments:
Post a Comment