FCT polls: Collation resumes in Kuje after disruption by hoodlums
Collation of results for the Kuje area council chairmanship election resumed on Sunday following a disruption by hoodlums on Saturday.
There was heavy security presence at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) collation centre in Soka, Kuje, as officials, election observers, monitors and members of the media gathered for the continuation of the exercise.
As proceedings resumed, Haruna Jatau, representative of the All Progressives Congress (APC), alleged overvoting in Gudun Karya ward.
Jatau objected to the results presented by Zubairu Mohammed, collation officer, citing alleged breaches in two polling units.
According to him, there was overvoting in Zagabutu village, while voters in Huni village were accredited manually instead of using the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS).
“The APC rejects the election results from Gudun Karya,” he said.
Mohammed denied the allegation, insisting that BVAS was used for accreditation across Gudun Karya ward.
The collation officer, however, disclosed that he received a report from the polling officer in Huni village alleging that some thugs loyal to a political party coerced him into rewriting the election results in their favour.
He said the polling officer yielded under duress and altered the results before they were later corrected to reflect the figures captured by the BVAS.
Abubakar Dambu, INEC resident electoral commissioner (REC) supervising Kuje area council, frowned at the cancellations observed on the result sheets and urged the APC representative to submit his complaint in writing.
