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What I would like to draw your particular attention to is the blatant Ballot Box stuffing.

You can see by the way the votes are all folded together that many of them were put in at once and they were not put in individually.

The pictures were taken on Saturday the 14th of April 2007 in Bodo City Ward 1, Ogoniland, Rivers State, Nigeria at two separate polling stations, St Pius College and and State school 2.


Our Oyibo witnessed polling officials stuffing ballot boxes with ballots where all the ballots had been marked for the PDP.

The interepid member did take names but feels it worthless to send them to anyone as they are relatively minor figures in this rigging scandal and may have been coerced into doing it. (Probably they were paid, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt).

At both polling stations voters said they had been turned away. At State School Two, three voters were turned away after the presiding officer said that all electoral materials had been used up.

At St Pius College, several officials were caught with piles of pre-marked ballots. One tried to hide them by sitting on them. Women there said they had been turned away from voting.

In Okrika, my friend went around for two hours looking for an open polling station and failed to find one despite a recorded turnout of more than 82,000 of around 90,000 registered voters. No one they spoke to in Okrika had voted by one thirty and about ten people called them later to confirm that no polls had opened in several areas of Okrika at all that day.

At the polling station directly opposite INEC, about a 30 second walk across the road, voting had failed to start by 10:30 despite the commissioner's statement that voting began in most places by 8am.