A case of ballot box snatching has been reported in
Bayelsa State.
Chief Ipigansi Izagara, the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in the Bayelsa East Senatorial
district of the State, raised an alarm over alleged hijack of
election materials in Nembe Basambiri and Okoroba
areas
of the state.
He accused the opposition of having sponsored the
shooting and hijack of materials.
He said that that one person has been killed with five
others injured.
“They have hijacked materials from our area with the
assistance of soldiers,” he said, according to Vanguard.
Also speaking, a chieftain of the PDP from Okoroba
community in Nembe council, Benjamin, alleged that in
wards 11,12 and 13 of the area, the materials have been
diverted with the aid of security agents.
“We have been waiting and did not see materials and ad-
hoc staff from INEC. We learnt that they have been
hijacked. I’m at my unit 13 and no hope of voting,” he said.
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