Following reports of violence by youths in
Rivers state under the sponsorship of some
politicians, the Independent National
Electoral Committee (INEC) has suspended
the ongoing National Assembly election in the state.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)
in Rivers state, Aniedi Ikoiwak, confirmed
the cancellation of elections in four different local government area (LGAs) in the state.

The election was scheduled to hold in 23
LGAs, 319 wards and 4,442 polling units of
the across the state.

Elections were, however, cancelled in Bonny,

Gokana, Abua/Odual and Andoni local
government areas of Rivers state.

Aniedi confirmed this while speaking with
newsmen at the INEC secretariat in Rivers
state.

He acknowledged that widespread irregularity
had marred the election and that youths in
the areas refused to allow the electoral
officers move election materials from the
voting centers.

The REC stated that: “Actually we deployed
our electoral materials since Thursday and
today we have had the experience that most
of our materials were not allowed to move
from the RAC centres and even when we
tried to deploy to the RACs, we were
accosted.”

“In the overall, we are hearing reports that
elections held. We had a situation where
elections were not allowed to hold in some
places. We need to let you know that
elections has been suspended in 4 local
government areas of Andoni, Bonny, Khana
and Gokana.”


http://ynaija.com/rivers-rerun-election-suspended-in-4-lgas/

the seizure of result sheet in Bonny was quickly detected by PDP. APP was beaten to the game....

Dunno Why Apc Is Too Desperate