The Independent National Electoral Commission office in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State has been reportedly set ablaze in the early hours of Sunday.
Some youths were said to have invaded the office while the collation of results of the governorship and state assembly elections was ongoing. The police spokesperson in Imo State, Ikeokwu Orlando, who confirmed this to Channels Television said the reason for the action had not been ascertained but investigations were ongoing.The security guard at the office was said to have been overpowered by the suspected hoodlums, but the INEC officials reportedly escaped with the election results to the INEC head office in Owerri before the building was set on fire.
Similar attacks on INEC offices occurred in Plateau, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, and the Osun States in the run-up to the general elections, leaving electoral materials including card readers destroyed in the affected places. Meanwhile, tension is reported to be building in the state following the delay in the collation of results from various local government areas. As at the time of this report, no collation has started at the INEC headquarters, venue of the final collation and announcement of the results.
Please there is no hoodlums and no inec office wasn't set on no fire please go ahead and give us the result PDP is leading here unless u want government house to be set on fire better provide the result inec2019
Make l talk my own ooooh, if you loose, no try say u dey Court Abgi no time for my time
Where are the security agencies that are supposed to guard these offices ?
Its Rochas an AA thatz causing all dis problems...APC is not having hope of winning in IMO
This thing don turn war.
areogunboy Same zone same pattern but we reject APC and their violence still
Choi Apc oooooooo, it can never be well with the party, their members and their families and all their cohort.
Same pattern, same story. We have no leaders and our politicians are evil. None is worthy.
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