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#OndoDecides2024: Despite Reports of Violent Disruption, INEC Uploads Result for Ogbagi Akoko with APC Taking Lead

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded the result for the polling unit 19 at Ogbagi, Akoko North West, the PIJAlance independently confirmed.

 

This upload is coming despite the report and viral video showing the Presiding Officer (PO) of the polling unit, Bakare Ronke, detailing the account of how alleged People’s Democratic Party (PDP) party agent and hoodlums disrupted the whole voting process in the unit by destroying election materials and stealing their belongings in the process.

In the video currently circulating on socal media, hoodlums attacked and assaulted officials of INEC at the ALA/ALADEGBAYE, HIGH CHIEF OLOFE CAMP which is the Polling Unit 19, Ward 6 Ogbagi in the Akoko North West Local Government area of Ondo State.

According to the video the Presiding Officer of the polling unit, Ronke said that the attackers destroyed all the electoral materials at the polling unit, stole their phones and purses, and physically assaulted them.

 

The Presiding Officer, who said that the attack happened shortly after a PDP agent at the polling unit was arrested by the police for tearing votes, said that her Assistant Presiding Officer 1 (APO 1) she identified as Bello Samuel, had been missing since the were attacked.

 

Narrating what happened, the Presiding Officer said, “As the process of the election was going on, a party agent from PDP tore a vote without my consent. I don’t know his name because he had not indicated his name.

 

“I was trying to address him but he asked me to do my work. In order to resolve the matter, the Kabiyesi of the community (community leader) came but he (the PDP) agent was trying to tear another vote when the officers (police) at the polling unit called the DPO for his arrest.

 

“They (police) asked me what I wanted and I said he should be removed or the polling unit should be canceled. Then, he was arrested and the election continued.

 

“Unaware, we discovered a gang of people parking the election materials and they beat us up – I and my APOs. Even till now, I haven’t seen my APO 1, Bello Samuel by name.

 

“Our phones have been stolen with our purses, and all the electoral materials have been destroyed except the BVAS which I escaped with.”

 

She said that before the hoodlums attacked them, “I called SPO and the officers called the DPO. After that, I know nothing preserved by grace.”

Checks by the PIJAlance Team on the INEC’s IRev portal, found what is believed to be contrasting to the content of the viral video as election result of the polling unit were uploaded with APC taking the lead with 95 votes, PDP 12 and ADC 2.

 

The violent disruption which came almost few hours after the voting started, led to the untimely abortion of the election process. How INEC gets the new result, signed by the PO remains shrouded in mystery.

Read Also: Ondo Election: Voter Says BVAS Not Working, Asks for Manual Accreditation 

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