Given the ongoing violence in Kogi State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has threatened to annul the results of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hale Longpet, issued the warning in response to the crises that erupted in some Local Government Areas while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja.
There were reports of thugs interfering in some polling units in Anyigba and Dekina in Kogi East, Mopa in Kogi West, and parts of Kogi Central, where voting materials were allegedly carted away by the thugs.
Longpet said, “You know the electoral Law says that where there are disruptions to the process, the result will be cancelled, the very particular units’ results will be cancelled. The issues initially were only in the Kogi East and Central but I can’t tell exactly where and where in the state have been affected until the results are brought by the electoral officers.
“We understood that because of the violence, those affected areas couldn’t conclude election there. I’m shocked that people can go to that level and disrupt something that everybody should have enjoyed.”