The Chairman House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Refugees and North-East Initiatives, Malam Sani Zorro, has accused the member representing Gagarawa Local Government in the Jigawa State House of Assembly, Ibrahim Kadaita, of snatching a ballot box and disrupting the the just-concluded Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the area.
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The Presidential and National Assembly elections took place peacefully with no case of ballot box snatching across the 25 Local Government Areas of Niger State.
Five days to commencement of Nigeria’s general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has been challenged to display openness in all its activities.
He said: “We are still having pockets of violence in one or two places in Obot Akara, but I think the security presence is good enough.
“In one of my polling units in Obot Akara, a staff was beaten and the result sheet was collected.”
He was also alleged to have tear gassed both the Independent National Electoral Commission officials and the electorates who were on queue patiently waiting to cast their votes
Adejobi said the driver and two other passengers of the truck, who could not give satisfactory explanations concerning the boxes, were handed over to the police at the Ijebu-Ode Area Command