A collation centre in Ogoja constituency, Cross Rivers, was attacked by hoodlums on Sunday, March 18, while the collation of election results was ongoing.
The state police spokesperson Irene Ugbo, confirmed the attack.
ICIR learnt that the hoodlums carted away phones, beat up many ward collation officers and disrupted the collation of results.
According to one of the collation officers attacked, Paul Bassey Inyang, the incident was triggered by a disagreement between party agents over the figures of the governorship election result for Nkum Irede ward.
Nkum Irede Ward’s result was the seventh out of the ten wards in Ogoja council and the Peoples Democratic Party was leading.
Inyang said the hoodlums that attacked the centre were over 30 in number.
He said his laptop and duplicate result sheets were all destroyed.
“One of my colleagues is still being treated in the theatre and I pray he comes out alive as heavy stones and planks were used on him,” he said.
Beloved John is an investigative reporter with International Centre for Investigative Reporting.
You can reach her via: Bjohn@icirnigeria.org