TENSION IN ASO-ROCK!!! IPOB SWEPT AKWA-IBOM LIKE A HURRICANE AS POLLING UNITS WERE DESERTED WITH ELECTION BOYCOTTING AGAIN...SEE
TENSION IN ASO-ROCK!!! IPOB SWEPT AKWA-IBOM LIKE A HURRICANE AS
POLLING UNITS WERE DESERTED WITH ELECTION BOYCOTTING AGAIN!!!
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise is also
threatened by voter apathy as turnover of the electorate remained
unimpressive as at 10 a.m.
Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC), had scheduled polling to commence at 8 a.m in the 31 local government areas in the state to elect the councils’ chairmen and 329 councillors.
Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC), had scheduled polling to commence at 8 a.m in the 31 local government areas in the state to elect the councils’ chairmen and 329 councillors.
NAN correspondents monitoring the elections in Uyo, Eket, Abak, Onna, Oron, Mkpat Enin and Ikot Abasi local government areas reported that as at 9.40 am, all the polling units visited were empty.
The
State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, left Uyo, the state capital, at about
9.30am to vote in his Awa unit in Onna Local Government Area in Akwa
Ibom South Senatorial District.
At
the area office AKISIEC in Eket, electoral materials were still being
sorted out for distribution as at 9.30a.m. The crowd at the office was
large and disorderly, warranting the police to use tear gas to disperse
the people.
As
at 9 a.m, only six women and two men were seen at Akamba Nsukara
Primary School polling units in Uyo, waiting for the exercise to
commence. Young men were busy playing football on the school’s pitch.
The
primary school, which has two polling units, had no indication of the
election; no security agent or electoral official was seen.
The
situation was same at Boys’ School polling unit inAnua, Uyo, where only
a handful of women were seen waiting, without any official around.
The
Coordinator for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the unit, Mrs Mfon
Effiong, told NAN that they reported at 8 a.m but the election process
had yet to commence.
“By this time, we should have started the process of accreditation. I am still hopeful that they will come,”
Effiong said. Similarly, St. Luke’s Hospital polling unit, Uyo, had no officials or security agents as at 9 a.m. but five women were seen waiting.
At
Oniong Primary School, which usually serves asdistribution and collation
centre, a female police officer, 12 men and six women were spotted at
9.22 a.m but noelectoral official was around.
At
9.40 a.m at Asutan Street polling unit along Wellington Bassey Way,
leading to Government House, Uyo, no official or voter was seen.
The
PDP agent at the unit, Mr Solomon Ekpe, said that he had called AKISIEC
office and was expecting the officials and the materials.
At
11 a.m, the exercise did not commence in any polling unit visited and
voter turnout was generally low compared to previous council polls in
the state.
Chairman
of AKISIEC, Mr Aniedi Ikoiwak, could not be reached for reasons for the
observed lapses in the exercise as calls to his mobile telephone were
not taken and messages were not responded to.
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TENSION IN ASO-ROCK!!! IPOB SWEPT AKWA-IBOM LIKE A HURRICANE AS POLLING UNITS WERE DESERTED WITH ELECTION BOYCOTTING AGAIN...SEE
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