DSS, others bar journalists from collation centres
in Imo

There was mild tension in parts of in Imo State on
Sunday as armed security personnel, including
men of the Department of State Security, the Police
and the Army barred journalists from collation
centres in the state.
At the collation Centre in Owerri Municipal Council
Secretariat, journalists were turned back from the
gate by stern looking security operatives who
could not give reasons for the action.
The anxious journalists who were at the centres to
get the results of the National Assembly and
Presidential election results were told to return
home and wait until the results were announced.
All efforts to reach the Resident Electoral
Commissioner, George Ada, were abortive as his
phone was switched off.
Meanwhile elections were conducted yesterday in
the polling units where the exercise could not hold
yesterday as a result of non availability of voting
materials.
It will be recalled that many supporters of the All
Progressives Congress were arrested and
manhandled by security operatives at the alleged
instance of the People’s Democratic Party.

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