In Kogi State’s Ogori-Magongo local government area, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has canceled elections in 67 polling places.
According to Sahara Reporters, Residents of the Magongo village had voiced strong objections to the results being written on the result sheet before accreditation and voting had started in the polling places, which led to the cancellation.
Sahara Reporters was informed by an informed source that INEC had canceled the election.
“The election here has been cancelled. The protest has made the INEC officials call off their staff. In all polling unit in Ogori/Magongo local government.”
Residents of Magongo in Kogi State’s Ogori-Magongo local government area are claiming that results have been written on the result sheet before accreditation and voting have even started, as previously reported by Sahara Reporters.
The residents who stormed the Magongo RAC center expressed their displeasure that, in spite of all the promises of a free and fair election, officials of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had already written the results of the various polling units in the local government before the election had even begun.
According to pre-written results from several voting places that Sahara Reporters was able to collect, the APC received 120 votes, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) each received one vote.
