Breaking News: INEC official feared killed in Abonnema after Protesters shut INEC RAC centres in 3 LGAs

An Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, official has been reportedly killed in Abonnema area of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

 It was gathered that electoral officials who were on duty were attacked on arrival at the area. At press time details on this development were still sketchy.

Meanwhile a group of voters suspected to be loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have protested alleged distribution of fake result sheets in Tai, Gokana and Khana Local Government Areas of the state.

The protesters have closed the gate of the the three RAC centres is the three LGAs demanding the provision of the original result sheets meant for the elections.

In Gokana LGA some of the buses that left before the discovery was made have been abandoned outside the centre. At press time, 12pm, voters were still awaiting the arrival of electoral materials.


This is coming as the police in Rivers have said that there has not been any adverse security report in the on-going re-run legislative elections in the state. The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in Rivers, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, said in Port Harcourt on Saturday that all was calm in the state. “We are in touch with the various Divisional Police Officers and they have not made any reports suggesting that there is uneasy calm.

 “So far so good for now. We are monitoring the situation. The command has also done all deployments to the polling units and other areas,” he said. Meanwhile, the accreditation of voters and voting had not started in some units in Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt local government areas. At Unit 7, Ward 9, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, voters were still waiting for election materials to arrive at 10.15 a.m.

 The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Rivers, Mr Aneidi Ikoiwak, had said accreditation and voting would commence at the same time for the re-run election. A voter, Mr Paul Wordi, said the residents had resolved to wait for the election materials. `We have decided to wait here until the materials arrive.

We are happy with the presence of security in the unit,” he said. At Unit 8, Ward 12, Port Harcourt, a PDP agent, Mr Ibra Onyelabuchukwu, said materials had arrived and were being sorted out by INEC staff. An APC agent, Mr Uyo Christopher, expressed satisfaction with the situation of things at the unit. “ So far so good. Security is tight here and everybody is waiting for voting to start,” he said