THERE were shootings and snatching of ballot boxes in some polling units in Dekina Local Government Area.
The affected are CMM Primary School, Eti Aya ward 1Anyigba, and Yale. Sources said votings were going on well when thugs shoot sporadically and hijacked the ballot boxes and left with them. It was also learnt that voters scampered for safety.
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has raised an alarm, saying the election of the Kogi Central Senatorial part of the state where the incumbent governor hails from has been conducted overnight.
Speaking with newsmen he state chairman of the party, Alhaji Mouktar Atimah, noted that the governorship election in Kogi Central was rigged in the Night, the reason he said APC agents are not present in most of the polling units.
The SDP chairman added that, “the absence of APC agents at the polling units has affirmed the information we got that the APC has conducted the election of Kogi Central in the night.
“They are the most desperate party in this election, the absence of their agents in most of the polling units is not by accident, since they’ve already rigged the election they consider it a waste of time to be here with other party”, the source said.
The incumbent governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello who hails from Kogi Central Senatorial District is a seeking for reelection against the major contenders, Natasha Akpoti of SDP who also hails from Kogi Central and Musa Wada of PDP who hails from Kogi East.
