#BayelsaDecides: Soldiers Arrest Ballot Box-Snatching Suspects

Two persons suspected to be agents of one of the political parties involved in Saturday’s supplementary governorship election in Bayelsa have been arrested for allegedly snatching a ballot box.

NAN reports that the suspects were arrested by soldiers at Otuokpoti Unit 1, Ward 2, Ogbia Local Government Area, where the box was allegedly snatched.
The suspects were said to have forcefully carried the ballot box while polling was ongoing at the unit.

The incident caused pandemonium at the unit but after the suspects were taken away, accreditation and voting resumed.

An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official in the ward, who did not want to be named, confirmed that security reinforcement had been sent to the area and that election would continue.

A member of the security team in the ward said that the suspects would be taken to Yenagoa, the state capital, while investigation would be carried out on the incident.
However, Police in the state said they were yet to receive report on the incident.

Spokesman of the command, Mr Asinim Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said it was possible that such incident occurred in the polling area but that the command had not received report on it.

Butswat, however, told NAN that the situation was calm in most polling units where the election was being conducted.

NAN reports that the supplementary election in the state is holding in Southern Ijaw and in 101 polling units in other parts of the state where the Dec. 5, 2015 governorship poll was cancelled due to violence.

According to Butswat, reports from the units indicate that all is calm. “The command has done necessary deployments to all polling units. In most units, accreditation and voting have commenced and it has been peaceful so far.

“Our men are on ground and are on top of the situation,” he said.

Meanwhile, accreditation and voting began in Otuabagi, Otuekemi and other units in Ward 12, Ogbia Local Government Area between 8:15 a.m. and 8:40 a.m.
NAN observed the card reader in the polling units were functional.

Mr Mike Ebong, a voter in unit 16 who assessed the conduct of the exercise told NAN that it was orderly.

Another voter, Mr James Tariowrie, said that he decided to vote for the betterment of the state.

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Posted: at 9-01-2016 04:36 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

More are yet to come.

Posted: at 9-01-2016 04:59 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

yeye people , they can't agreed on one thing , who go chop their money for the next 4 yrs

Posted: at 9-01-2016 05:14 PM (8 years ago) | Grande Master

APC is the biggest calamity to ever befall this Nation. The federal Govt
is struggling to take over people's mandate by force and blood. In a
normal society, APC would have conceded defeat after losing 6 to 1, but
not in that evil forest called Nigeria.
The biased south west
political critics bigots(Wole Soyinka, Falana etc) had vehemently become
dumb and blind to this shameless rape of our democracy but they are
quick to talk about the fathom Dasuki gate bruohaha. I really blame that
idiot called Goodluck Jonathan for losing power to these bunch of
democratic terrorists out of sheer cowardice and juvenility.

Posted: at 9-01-2016 05:56 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I still dey wait as more drama unfolds

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Posted: at 9-01-2016 06:34 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

SOLDIERS FOR KILL DOSE FOOLS.

Posted: at 9-01-2016 07:44 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Forget about this rubbish you are tlking abt man. Jonathan did what best for this country becz of the blood shearng by boko. and for the electn u knw its nt gn to be easy becz pdp has power hand than apc in the state.

Posted: at 9-01-2016 08:35 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

Serve them right please

Posted: at 9-01-2016 09:26 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

SEEN

Posted: at 9-01-2016 10:30 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac