INEC to cancel elections in parts of Kogi over violence

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Thugs were reported to have unleashed violence as voting was underway in some areas.

has threatened to cancel election results of crisis-ridden areas during the presidential and National Assembly elections in Kogi State

There were reports of thugs interfering with some polling units in Anyigba and Dekina in the Kogi East and Mopa in the Kogi West as well as parts of Kogi Central, where voting materials were allegedly carted away by the thugs. “The issues initially were only in the Kogi East and Central but I can’t tell exactly where and where in the state have been affected until the results are brought by the electoral officers.“I’m shocked that people can go to that level and disrupt something that everybody should have enjoyed.

 

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Same in lagos

And Parts of Rivers and Lagos too

Let them cancel it

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