INEC has confirmed that there will be no elections in three Registration Areas (wards) in Ebonyi State due to deadly violence in the governorship and state house of assembly in the state today.
The electoral commissioner in the state, Prof Godswill Obioma, revealed this as he spoke to the press in Abakaliki on Saturday.
Reports have it that fully-armed plitical thugs took over 3 registration area camps (RACs) in some parts of Ezza North local government and burnt sensitive election materials.
Prof Godswill listed the affected wards to include Ekka with code number 02, having 16 voting points with 137 polling units and Oriuzor with code number 09 with 32 voting points.
He revealed that 15,452 registered voters in the ward could not exercise their franchise.
His words, “The total voting points are 75 and the total number of registered voters affected is 36,392.
“There were no elections in the three Wards because all materials were burnt by armed thugs.
”No life was lost. All INEC ad-hoc staff in the areas were rescued to safety by security agents and have since returned to their residences.”
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