READ STORY!! Poll Officials Escape Lynching In Anambra

The moment when electoral official comes late to the polling unit.. this is not funny at all but yet dramatic!

 An official almost got lynched by anxious voters after getting late to his appointed polling unit. He is an electoral official at Umunankwo/ Mputu ward in Ogbaru local government area of Anambra State. LEADERSHIP Sunday has it that the poll officials arrived the centre at about 12:30pm without result sheets for two polling units. One of the officials for the centre, Mr. Ignatius Onyejekwe, stated that he escaped the wrath of the voters along with other ad hoc staff by the whiskers.



Narrating his severe experience, the electoral officer, he stated that the voters were angry because they could not find voting materials for two polling units there and the presiding officials.

As at 3:30pm, INEC officials hadn’t arrived Obeagwe, Akili-Ogidi and Ogwuikpele communities in Ogbaru riverine area because of the difficult terrain owing to rain fall that occurred the previous night. The electoral officials were said to have refused entering a flying boat to access the three communities.

Meanwhile, though the elections witnessed massive turnout of voters in the state, late commencement of accreditation of voters and malfunctioning of the card readers characterized the conduct of the polls in many centres in the state.

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