Controversy has trailed the just concluded Kebbi state local govt election as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged votes buying, late arrival of sensitive election materials on Saturday on February the 5th 2022.
Meanwhile, Kebbi state Independent election commission, KSIEC, and the Ruling APC have debunked the allegations saying the LG polls were peaceful polls across the 21 local governments in Kebbi state.
However, reports from other local councils indicated that, the polls were relatively peaceful except in Mungadi a town under Suru local government where it was reported that, there were slight clashes between supporters of the opposition peoples democratic party, PDP, when some thugs allegedly sponsored by the ruling party APC, made away with the ballot box.
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At Gwandangaji ward, a suburb of Birnin Kebbi, polls began around 9am due to late arrival of sensitive materials, the ward chairman of the PDP Mande Umar Gwadangaji raised the alarm that, materials sent by the state electoral body were incomplete
“they first brought only two booklets of ballot papers which we rejected they added some and asked us to wait for the remaining ones”, he said.
Umar alleged that, APC stalwarts were seen openly buying votes to seduce or change the mindset of voters, he confirmed that his party will not get justice at the end of the day.
While at Malami’s polling unit named filing mariya shiyar fada in Birnin Kebbi KSIEC officials arrived the polling unit at about 1pm after voters came since 8am one of the voters Bello Namaka told the press that, they did called the officials to bring materials but didnt turn up till 1pm.
By 2pm the minister of justice and attorney general of the federation Abubakar Chika Malami arrived the pollig to cast his vote, shortly after casting his vote, Malami addressed the press where he urged people of the state to be peaceful and to the aspirants he admonished them to accept the outcome as an act of God.
