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The crisis in Effium community in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria took a new twist on Sunday as hoodlums suspected to be Ezza warriors burnt down a police station in the area. SaharaReporters gathered that the station housed operatives stationed in the community as a peacekeeping force.
The police have confirmed the attack.
The candidates of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and the Labour Party (LP) in Ebonyi state, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to cancel the ongoing Abakaliki North Constituency Supplementary election. They accused some officials of the Nigeria's electoral umpire of colluding with the ruling All Progressives Congress and security agents to rig the poll.
The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant for Ezza North Constituency, Leonard Kelechi Nwali and three others in connection with the killing of one Peter Nweke. Nweke, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was tortured to death by suspected political thugs during the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ebonyi State.
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ebonyi State, Prof. Bernard Odoh, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over the