Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
Preliminary studies obtained from varied councils throughout the state confirmed that polling items have been sparsely populated or utterly empty as of midday
“I needed to run out, they destroyed the facet mirrors of my automotive… They introduced out knives and wished to stab me. What occurred to the free and truthful election they promised us? Nothing is free and truthful. You’re intimidating individuals,” Chioma Akpotha, a veteran actress, mentioned in a reside Instagram video.
One other voter within the Oniru space of Lagos,
informed The Africa Report that thugs threatened all those that weren’t prepared to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return residence instantly.
The Africa Report had reported earlier that there was looming electoral violence in Lagos as thugs loyal to the APC had earlier than the day of the election warned all those that weren’t planning on voting for the APC to remain at residence.
Transport kingpin Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, a member of the APC’s Presidential Marketing campaign Council and the top of the Lagos State Parks Administration Committee, had issued threats whereas addressing his boys. He later backtracked, saying he was solely joking after the viral video drew the ire of the general public.
Conventional rulers who’re identified supporters of the ruling celebration additionally imposed midnight curfews to carry out ‘Oro’ rights, slaughtering animals and inserting the heads of goats in calabashes strategically positioned close to voting centres ostensibly to scare voters.
A Channels Tv journalist, Olu Philips, who was on the bottom at Folorunsho Major College Oshodi space of the state was threatened and prevented from coming into a polling station to do a reside video protection till policemen returned to escort him inside.
Viral movies present thugs wielding sticks shouting that those that will not be planning on voting for the APC ought to sit at residence.
At a polling unit in Muyibi, Ajegunle, an opposition stronghold in Lagos, poll bins have been overturned whereas poll papers fell into gutters.
Electoral modifications
Some voters expressed frustration with the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) over surprising modifications to the voting course of.
At Victoria Backyard Metropolis (VGC), a upmarket personal neighbourhood with hundreds of voters, election officers relocated the voting cubicles exterior the safe property leaving voters weak to assault.
Pleas for the electoral officers to return the voting cubicles into the safe property fell on deaf ears.
“We’re absolutely arrange and all of the polling items are right here however INEC mentioned they might not be coming into VGC however arrange on the expressway. 1000’s of individuals are right here to vote however they need us to go to the expressway. It has by no means occurred earlier than. They’re saying they aren’t coming in,” mentioned Omoni Oboli, a veteran actress.
Additionally at some polling items, electoral officers mentioned they might not add the election outcomes to the end result viewing portal from the polling unit however would solely achieve this after outcomes had been taken to collation centres.
That is at variance with the rules INEC had set out.
“We aren’t importing the outcomes from right here,” an unidentified electoral official mentioned repeatedly at a polling unit at Ward 2, Aguda, Surulere, at the same time as some indignant voters walked away in frustration.
A Spokesman for INEC informed The Africa Report that the fee would examine this alteration in protocol.
Opposition kicks
Governorship candidate of the Labour Occasion, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, who enjoys a big following amongst city youths and non-Yoruba audio system, decried the voter intimidation and suppression whereas talking with journalists after casting his vote in Ikeja, the state capital.
“It is extremely unlucky that Lagos State has been underneath the rule of those that solely carry thuggery and violence each 4 years. Once they had the chance to do properly and create a bunch that may be truly joyful to vote for them. However they at all times select violence,” Rhodes-Vivour mentioned.
Additionally, a frontrunner of the PDP in Lagos State, Bode George, expressed disappointment with the conduct of the ballot, saying, “What’s all this? They overlook that the worldwide neighborhood is watching. What sort of nation will we wish to be within the eyes of the comity of countries?”
Nevertheless, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned all voters ought to stay vigilant at the same time as he mentioned acts of violence wouldn’t be condoned.
“We look for a free, clear and credible election. I wish to ask all voters to stay vigilant, when you see one thing say one thing. Any type of violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
Activist, Ene Obi of the State of affairs Room, an election monitoring group, mentioned preliminary studies confirmed voter intimidation, suppression and violence in varied elements of Lagos in addition to in Rivers, Enugu and Kano.
“We observed a disaster in some elements of Lagos the place individuals have been being overwhelmed. Now we have obtained many studies on that. In the event you go to our knowledge room, we’re being inundated with many studies,” Obi said.
