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Widespread voter inducement and electoral violence were recorded in the governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states yestyerday.

Scores of members of the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital to demand the cancellation of Saturday’s election in some areas. Off-season governorship elections were held in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states on Saturday; however, they were marred by violence, vote-buying and other irregularities. The PDP protesters called for the outright cancellation of results from areas where elections d...

Thugs reportedly loyal to Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Saturday’s election in Bayelsa State have killed a member of the Peoples Democratic Party. Sylva is a former governor of the state and ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources. SaharaReporters learnt that thugs allegedly working for the APC killed the youth identified as Berepelenyo George Sibo, at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Twon-Brass, headquarters of Brass Local G...

An ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a National Youth Service Corps member were on Saturday attacked by suspected thugs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), carting away the elections materials, the BIVAS machines for Ward 1, Unit 23 located at Onopa in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The bag of the corps member was also carted away by the armed thugs.