Five days to Saturday’s presidential election, the police have intercepted a bus-load of ballot papers supposedly meant for the election in the early hours of yesterday at Wuse 2 district of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the area Usman Umar (CSP), “I was alerted by my men in the early hours of Monday that a commercial bus loaded with ballot papers with inscription of presidential election has been arrested and is brought to the station. I quickly rushed to the station at about 4 to 4.30 am. Because of its high profile nature, I immediately contacted my superiors and moved the consignment and the suspects to the command headquarters where the matter is being handled presently. Two persons, including the driver of the bus were involved. The suspects said they were only contracted to transport the items and that they did not know who owns it,” the DPO narrated.
The DPO further explained that the suspects claimed the materials were property of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that was contracted out to a private printer, who, after printing, contracted them to transport.
Umar stated that the suspects tendered a letter supposedly written by the INEC, authorising the contract for the ballot papers but he was not satisfied with the document and so, directed his men to transfer the two accomplices to the FCT Police Command.
The report of the arrest attracted members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), who stormed the Utako Police Station, to get more facts about the incident, which they feared might be a precursor to a planned rigging of the presidential election.
The politicians later left after getting assurance that the police were investigating the matter and that no stone would be left unturned to arrest the printers of the ballot papers.
When asked the total number of the ballot papers, said he can’t tell exactly but that it should be in hundreds of thousands but also noted that nobody knew how many that had transported out before the arrest.
When contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Moshood Jimoh, said he was not aware of the matter, adding that he had been at a seminar all day and had not yet been briefed on the incident
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