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News Flash: Angry youth Disrupted the Electoral process in Akate Ward, Donga, Taraba state.

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Date: 19th March, 2023
Reporting from: Donga, Taraba State.


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Good day readers, this is your reliable reporter reporting from Donga, Taraba state. It's no more a news that the long awaited gubernatorial election was scheduled to hold today 18th of March, 2023 and of course the election was held and was also successful in so many pollen unit.

The reverse was actually the case In my pollen unit as angry youth stormed the RAC center where we were suppose to get our election material both sensitive and non sensitive before proceeding to our various pollen unit in my ward. Just sit back and relax even as I give you the news in detail.


Prior to the disruption of the whole process, myself and every other officer for the election had gotten to he rack center, registering our presence and making neccessary documentation which of course included the submission of our account number for payment after a successful work.

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Me at the RAC center

After this the materials to be used in every pollen unit was sorted unit by unit, we were still there waiting for some other material called sensitive material, which included the EC8A form. This form is actually used to enter the written result from every pollen unit before transmitting live.

All of a sudden we heard a gun shot some meters away from the RAC center. Everyone in the center became tensed because of the information that has been circulating about the gubernatorial election. There is this believe that it's always very serious. Well the officials were able to calm the situation and built our confidence.

It wasn't long before we saw angry youth of the community charging towards us in the center while we were still waiting for the election materials to be distributed to us. They came in throwing stones which of course made everyone of us run in different directions.

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The forceful entry of angry youth

They started destroying the election materials that were on ground. They spared nothing, except for the BVAS which of course was with some of the pollen officers that managed to run away with them. I took a long shot putting my life on the line...

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The material destroyed

If not for the swift intervention of the security agencies, they would have wrecked more havoc. Am grateful that no life was lost. People only sustained injuries. It was quite clear that they were not after the people per say. They came to stop the election.

After interrogating few correspondent there I later found out that the reason why they were agitated was because they discovered that the EC8A result sheet brought down was full of duplicates and not original.

This to them seems like a foul play. They were very concerned and wondered what could have happened to the original. They felt there is something fishy somewhere and that led to the agitation.

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Salvaged materials

The deed has been done and for that reason the election was canceled immediately. We all had to leave at that moment. But this left questions on the mind of the pollen officers.The question is, are we still going to be paid since we didn't eventually conduct the election?

Well this is left in the hands of the body, although we were paid feeding allowance moments after we got back to the INEC office in the local government. We are still waiting for further directives as touching the election because as it stands about 35 pollen unit have just deprived themselves of casting their votes because of the action of the youth.

This will be all from our end. I will give us further update on this issue. If the election will be rescheduled or remain cancelled.
Thank you all for your time.


Reporter:
@lhorgic♥️


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