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It's not up to 2015 and all this is happening.. Smh..
The Nigerian Police
have said an agent
of the All Progressives Congress in the June 21
governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr. Peter
Alabi , was involved snatching of ballot box
during the poll in Ayedun Ekiti, Ikole Local
Government Area of the state .
They said Alabi escaped arrest but that the
election of the unit where the incident
happened was cancelled by the Independent
National Electoral Commission.
The police who stated this in their report
tendered before the Governorship Election
Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on
Thursday , added that the incident was the
only electoral offence recorded throughout the
state during the election .
The Justice Mohammed Siraju- led tribunal
admitted the police report as exhibit.
This came as all parties in the petition
challenging the victory of Governor Ayodele
Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party in the
election , brought their cases to a close on
Thursday .
The police said in their report that the APC
agent who snatched the ballot box had done
so under the pretext of trying to cast his vote .
The report reads in part, “Result of Unit 6
Odogo under Ward 9 in Ikole Local
Government Area was cancelled due to the
snatching of the ballot box by one peter Alabi
of Odo Ayedun Ekiti an APC agent who
pretended to cast his vote and ran into the
bush with the ballot box . When pursued by
the security agents , he tore the ballot papers
there in and escaped .
“ INEC subsequently cancelled the unit result .”
The police , represented by Chief Olusola Oke ,
said in their report that the snatching of the
ballot box was the only electoral offence
recorded during the election in the state.
“ Where we experienced snatching of ballot box
and tearing of ballot papers in which suspect
mentioned is presently at large ,” the police
report signed by the Commissioner of Police
( Election ), Ekiti state Command, Ikechukwu A .
Aduba , read in part .
The matter was then adjourned till December
17 for parties to adopt their final written
addresses in the petition which was filed by
the All Progressives Congress.
The APC fielded former governor of Ekiti State ,
Dr. Kayode Fayemi , in the election .
The petitioner alleged excessive militarisation
of the election in a manner that jeopardised
its chances at the poll and the ineligibility of
Fayose to contest in the election on that he
had been impeached as governor in 2006.
The party also challenged the eligibility of
Fayose to contest in the election stating
that he was undergoing criminal prosecution
by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission.
But Fayose , represented by Yusuf Ali (SAN),
had in his defence told the tribunal that the
panel set up to investigate him as governor in
2006 cleared him and his purported
impeachment by the state House of Assembly
went to illegally remove him .
Apart from Fayose and the PDP , other
respondents in the petition are Chief of Army
Staff and INEC .
Daily Independent
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