He said party agents allegedly shared money with voters upon confirmation that they voted for their party candidates.
It was gathered that an unnamed party offered the money to the INEC staff.
“When you are conducting elections in 36 states, you can be giving excuses of having a lot of data, manpower, logistics and others to deal with.”
The NLC called for the redeployment of the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde.
Those who are here to make trouble will have us to contend with. We are more than adequately prepared.
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The directive is to protest the recent brutalisation of the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero.
“We are using this forum to passionately appeal to the NLC to shelve the planned strike,’’ said the group’s Director-General, Mr Kailani Muhammed.
This was part of the decision at the State Advisory Council (SAC) and State Executive Council (SEC) meetings in Ibadan.
Mr Chukwunyere said the group was caught unawares by the power outage, saying there was no notice of a strike by labour.
He said Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo states were not the easiest states to conduct elections.
