- There were pockets of crisis in parts of Kogi State on Saturday as some heavily armed thugs invaded some polling units shot sporadically and disrupted the election process killing one person
The disruption of the election took place in Anyigba, Dekina ,and Abocho all in the Eastern senatorial district while some polling units at Okekoko ward, Post Office unit of the local government secretariat in Kabba Bunu, and some other voting units in Ekinrin Adde, Egbeda Egga in Ijumu Local Government Area of the state were also recorded.
According to an eye witness account, one notorious thug named Akaihaba was shot dead while attempting to snatch ballot boxes at Agwudoko area in Anyigba in Dekina local government. Akaihaba was said to be a university graduate who just completed his NYSC.
At Udaba-Dekina and Tundun Wada polling units, ballot boxes were allegedly destroyed by the gunmen who were allegedly sponsored by a woman officer who retired from local government in Kogi State.
Also on Friday, the PDP senatorial candidate in the Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan alleged Governor Yahaya Bello ordered a bulldozer to excavate the road leading to her residence in Ihima, thereby disallowing her to move out of her residence.
