Suspected thugs on Monday evening disrupted the announcement of election results for the Plateau north senatorial district.
The thugs invaded the collation centre on Monday and chased away officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and ad-hoc staff.
The attack led to the stoppage of the declaration of results for the national assembly seats in the district.
The thugs invaded the venue when Nehemiah Sanda, the returning officer for the Jos north and Bassa constituency election, asked party agents to sign the collated results.
An official of the Jos North LGA who witness the fracas, and identified himself as Mr Shittu said, “Trouble started when the party agents were asked to sign the result sheets for the Bassa/Jos North Federal Constituency as announced by the Returning Officer, Dr Nehemiah Sanda who declared the PDP candidate, Musah Agah as the winner with 59,337 votes.
“But the agent of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) candidate, who came second with 58,460 votes rejected the results and insisted that no result sheets would be signed at the collation centre.
“As the INEC officials were trying to prevail on the party agent to allow them to do their job, the thugs believed to be loyalists of the PRP invaded the collation centre and chased the INEC officials away, thus preventing them from declaring the winners.
He said that it took a spirited effort of a senior police officer, DC Afebuamhe who quickly seized the election results and took them away.
Returning Officer for the Presidential election for the Collation Centre, Dr Lazurus Maigoro also confirmed the disruption of the election exercise by the thugs, saying, “yes, it is true that thugs invaded our collation centre while we were doing our job. it is now up to the INEC to know what to do next.”
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