Tag: Ballot Box
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Guber Poll: 30 ballot box snatching, 50 vote-buying cases listed – CSO
A civil society organisation, Connected Development, says it recorded 30 incidents of ballot box hijacking and 50 cases of vote-buying during the just concluded governorship polls across the country. The Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Hamzat Lawal, revealed the statistics during a post-election briefing in Abuja, on Tuesday. According to him, data from the…
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Military pledges loyalty to President Buhari, warns politicians seeking power outside ballot box
The Defence Headquarters has dissociated self from any anti-democratic utterances and positions as well as pledged loyalty to the President Muhammadu Buhari and the 1999 Constitution as Amended. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the attention of the military high command had…
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Hoodlums snatch ballot boxes in Lokoja
Some armed thugs in police and army uniforms invaded polling units in Adankolo community in Lokoja, shooting sporadically to scare away voters on the queue. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the armed hoodlums arrived in a van and immediately started shooting. Voters and electoral officers scampered to safety, a…