From Oladimeji Abitogun, Toyin Alege and Bunmi Bello in lokoja.
Nigeria’s democracy faces a major test of survival on account of allegations of ballot snatching,
fraudulent allocation of scores said to be at variance with scores recorded at polling units thereby reinforcing falls of integrity.
Human casualties are in the wake of the violence recorded in the two election held in the south south – coater state of bayelsa and the north centre state of kogi respectfully at the weekend .
The two elections aim at choosing the separate governor for the two states. There is another crucial election held to pick the bonafide senator for kogi west district.
In ward 11 of sagbama of bayelsa state the local leading opposition party, all progress congress,( APC) protested that election did not hold at all that result declared were phantom. several party agents disputed the final tallies at the collation center were often at variance with figures recorded at the polling units.
While the outcry trailing of the declared result often put to question the integrity of lecturers and professors. The collation officers from the country’s university and other high constitutions, were accused of been accomplices, some protesting party operatives allege that the collation exercises was coat a celebration of perfected “rigging”.
In Nembe, the ruling peoples democratic party describe the collation exercises at the independent national electoral commission office as a nothing “celebrating a perfect rigging”.
Let known political party, were all crying blue mother because of the incongruous in figure announced on the ground performances.
The narrative offers no better take in kogi state were opposition party had disputed no result.
No less than three persons were said to have been killed across kogi state. A nephew of one of the contestant, senator. Dino Malaye, Olorunjuwon was shot died at ayetoro – gbede in ijumu local government.
PDP also claimed that it’s lead trooper, Mr Ayodele Delex, was taken hostage, twenty four hour before the election. The mysterious disappearances of delex allegedly afforded APC in mopamuro local government a jolly good ride to finished the work.
Gun shot were also heard and ballot boxes were snatched at polling unit located at the iconic Crowder memorial college, lokoja.