Kogi Elections: Armed Thugs Shoot Sporadically, Snatch Ballot Box

Unidentified outfitted hooligans have carried off voting booths at the surveying units inverse Bishop Delisle Catholic Cathedral in Lokoja, Kogi, in the wake of shooting unpredictably.

Succinct News comprehends that the criminals were wearing police and armed force garbs, frightening off voters at the surveying units.

A staff of the Justice, Development, and Peace Commission, Sunday Adwjoh, said that numerous individuals from Karaworo Polling Station kept running into the congregation premises for security.

Adwjoh who talked on telephone stated, "as we are talking, we all are resting to avoid being hit by stray shots."

Additionally, at Oke Egbe Polling Unit 01 in Yagba West Local Government Area, a man was shot on the leg when a few people attacked the surveying unit to grab voting station and different materials.

The person in question, recognized as Tunde Oladipo, was said to have held hands with others at the surveying unit to keep the equipped hooligans from grabbing the voting booth.

Brief News discovered that the intruders were anyway kept from leaving with the tallying station.