The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed elections in 10 polling units in the Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections at the Victoria Garden City, Lagos.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, of INEC, Mr Segun Agbaje who made the announcement said that the ad hoc staff were reluctant to go to the VGC because they were held hostage in the February 25 Presidential elections.
There were reports that the residents of VGC who had set up tents for the election in the estates resisted the move by INEC staff to set up for the election along the express road.
The residents who spoke to journalists cited safety concerns in the volatile Lagos State where voters harassment, intimidation and suppression was rampant.
Agbaje in announcing the postponement of the election till Sunday explained that the residents claimed that hoodlums might disrupt the process if conducted along the road.
He said, “We have eight polling units here with 6,024 registered voters and out of which 5,624 people have their PVCs,” he stated, “Eight here (in the estate) and two outside,” he noted.
“After due consultation and further directive from the national headquarters that we should remobilise here tomorrow (Sunday) morning by 08:30am to conduct the elections. By 08:30am tomorrow (Sunday), we will reconvene here.”
There is widespread voter suppression in parts of Lagos especially areas considered heavily dominated by the Igbo and non Yoruba voters.
Hoodlums believed to be working for a particular political party attacked a polling unit Waheed Akande polling unit, Ago, Palace Way, Okota, Lagos and disrupted the process.
The INEC personnel battled the Hoodlums to retrieve the BVAS machines from the rampaging hoodlums.
The Network gathered that the hoodlums struck while the INEC personnel were configuring the machine.
So many residents besieged the streets chanting ‘we must vote’ while security operatives helplessly.
At the Polling Unit 022, at Oshodi/Isolo Oke Afa the voters resisted the hoodlums and were spoiling for confrontation with the thugs who scattered the voting materials.
Also Residents of Onireke Opposite Ojo cantonment Lagos state have taken to the streets to protest against APC thuggery.
So many residents besieged the streets chanting ‘we must vote’ while security operatives helplessly.
