Kingsley Chinda, PDP agent in Rivers state, has lodged a formal complaint of ballot box snatching at INEC headquarters in Port Harcourt.
According to Chinda, result sheets were snatched at a ward in Ahoda east LGA and three wards in Etche LGA.
Meanwhile, Election could not hold in Ward 12, Unit 1, Khana local government area, due to the hijack of electoral materials.
Also, Wilson Akanya from Ward 8, Unit 7, Khana LGA, said there was no voting in the entire area.
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has denied report of ballot box snatching and gunshots in some polling centres during the Edo governorship election on Wednesday.
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole had earlier said he received a report that some thugs allegedly snatched ballot boxes at Opoji in Esan North-East Local Government Area during the election.
Oshiomhole also alleged that the suspected snatchers shot sporadically before taking away the ballot boxes.
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four suspects, who allegedly attacked two mobile policemen and snatched their rifles at Agric area in Ikorodu, Lagos State, three years ago.
The police also recovered the two stolen arms, including one AK47 rifle with serial number 348417 and nine rounds of live ammunition, one Type 06 rifle with serial number 07010583 and one automatic pump action gun with serial number 42716.
Parading the suspects and eight others at the Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Monday, for various crimes ranging from cultism, car-snatching to armed robbery, the state Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, said that in October 2013, the four persons forcibly snatched the arms from two mobile policemen.
Ali said the suspects, including 35-year-old Sulaiman Lekuti (aka Epe Sule), Semiu Alaka (aka Ese Sobo), 39, Azeez Gbolahan (aka Eniba), 45 and Teslim Adetunji (aka Tessy), 43 were eventually arrested by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Ali said that, “On October 2013, some hoodlums at Agric in Ikorodu Area of Lagos, attacked two PMF personnel and collected their arms. On receipt of the information, policemen attached to SARS Abeokuta swung into action and arrested the suspects with the rifles. The case is still under investigation.”
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