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Imo By-Election: 100 INEC Staff Abducted, Forced To Thumbprint – REC
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Imo By-Election: 100 INEC Staff Abducted, Forced To Thumbprint – REC

Hundreds of ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Saturday’s Imo by-election for Ngor Okpala State Constituency have been abducted and taken to an unknown destination where they were forced to thumbprint on the ballot papers. The INEC Imo state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Professor Chukwuemeka Ezeonu, disclosed this Sunday while briefing newsmen on the happenings around the bye-election. The REC warned that those ballot papers from the abducted INEC ad-hoc staff, would not be accepted by the NEC. He said: “We have received the report of violence of election and disruption of polls on some polling units and attacks on our personnel.” He said that so far no casualty has been reported. See Also: INEC To Conduct Outstandi...