Citing widespread violence, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Kogi East Senatorial District and Dekina/Bassa federal constituency elections inconclusive.
INEC returning officer, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, who dropped the hint at the collation centre in Idah, said that the election did not hold in 129 polling units in the senatorial district.
Ajayi explained that elections in some polling units were cancelled and announced the upheld the results as APC 113,772, PDP 69,131 and ADC 30,696 votes.
He said that reports from Bassa local government area revealed that the electorate in “a registration area with the name Mozum, which has 12 polling units refused to vote.”
The INEC official said that a new date for the re-run of the cancelled polls would be announced after all necessary arrangements had been made.
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Last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections did not hold in four units in Anyigba, Dekina local government areas as gun-wielding hoodlums invaded polling units in Ajetachi, Etiaja, Abuja and CMML Primary School Unit 005.
In Ajetachi, a student of the Kogi State University (KSU), Daniel Usman, on queue to cast his vote was gunned down by the hoodlums who operated from a Toyota Sienna bus as they invaded the polling unit.
In Igalamela-Odolu local government area with 65,129 registered and 16,543 accredited voters, election in four polling units were cancelled within Ofuloko which has 1,145 registered voters.
The council also witnessed violent activities in Odolu town as suspected thugs, also in a Sienna bus, shot one Adebayo Adebunmi as they kidnapped Mr. Friday Sani, member representing Igalamela-Odolu constituency in the state House of Assembly.
In Bassa local government area, of the 58,892 registered voters, 19,587 were accredited: elections in nine polling units with 6,068 voters were cancelled while polling did not take place in some of the units.
