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Original Post Date: 2010-08-02 Time: 14:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Akure – Two officials the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on duty in Ondo State were reportedly kidnapped on Saturday while sailing from Ayetoro to other polling centres, and their whereabouts unknown at the time of filing this report.
Violence had broken mid-way into voting on Saturday, as INEC was conducting election in Ilaje State Constituency II of Ondo State House of Assembly where the seat was declared vacant after the Court of Appeal, Benin-City, removed former occupier, Otito Atikase of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the grounds of electoral malpractices.
The state Commissioner of Police, Bala Magaji Nasarawa, who later led a team of anti-riot policemen to Igbokoda about 12.40 p.m., said his men “are on ground to tackle any violence arising from the election”, urging voters to go out and cast their votes without intimidation or molestation.
Kunle Odidi of the Labour Party (LP) had filed a suit in 2007 against the declaration of Atikase as the elected representative. The success of his petition resulted in Saturday’s re-run.
But the election, which started on a peaceful note about 10.30 a.m. on election day at Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje Council Area, one of the six wards that made up the Constituency, turned violent when four buses convening 32 INEC officials on election duty to riverine communities of Mahin Ward 4 were shot at by unknown gunmen and prevented polling materials from getting to Igbo-Egunrin and adjoining polling centres.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Henry Fadairo, who briefed newsmen on the election process at the Igbokoda Division Police station, said the action distorted polling activities in 28 polling units in Mahin Ward 4.
The attack carried out by the yet-to-be known hoodlums also prevented voting in Ilemeje where about 20,000 votes are at stake.
Men suspected to be political thugs waylaid materials going into Ayede Ogun State end of the riverine area, thereby preventing materials from getting to the polling centres in Ilemeje, Igbobi, Mahintedo, Gbegunrin and Atijere.
At Kelema in Mahin Ward 3 Unit 16, a mild drama played out while some PDP members, including the candidate in the election, Atikase, and former chairman of the council complained to reporters that the polling centre in the area was shifted from the original point to another location just about 100 metres down the street.
The action created a scene as PDP loyalists in the area said they suspected foul play and alerted DCP Fadairo who pleaded with them to vote in the new location since election was going on peacefully there.
“We met people lining-up to vote down there, peacefully, and the INEC officials confirmed to us that the primary school was the polling centre. So my appeal is that you people should join them there and cast your votes peaceful,” he added.
However, voting in locations such as College Road, Larada, Ago Duron, Okunnuwa among others in Igbokoda Township were relatively peaceful and the turn-out of voters impressive.
While voting proceeded smoothly around the court area in Igbokoda, the story around Holy Trinity almost went sour as some politicians attempted, though unsuccessfully, to snatch ballot materials.
A member of House of Representatives in the area was reported to have physically led some heavily armed men to waylay INEC officials moving materials to Igbo-Egunrin for polls.
Original date published: 31 July 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201008020692.html?viewall=1