Sokoto PDP alleges ballot snatching in polling unit

The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to reject any result submitted from Maradun 011 polling unit of Tambuwal West, Sokoto State Assembly in Saturday’s rerun election.

The state PDP spokesman, Hassan Sanyinnawal, said this in a statement on Saturday night in Sokoto.

Sanyinlawa alleged that “the polling box was taken by hoodlums to change the results identified in the unit.

“Sule Romo of the PDP, Bashir Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress and others contested in the election.

“The total registered voters were 899 with PDP leading with over 200 votes before some bigwigs of APC snatched the ballot box to an unknown destination.”

He alleged that the bigwigs resurfaced at the collation centre, an action that was contested.

The rerun elections conducted in some states on Saturday were characterised by violence, vote-buying, ballot snatching, disruption and low turnout of voters.

The exercise did not go as planned in many of the polling units as reports of thuggery, ballot-snatching and intimidation of voters were recorded, while security agents made some arrests.

Some of the issues forced INEC to suspend the polls in some of the polling units in Kano, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, and Plateau states.

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