…DSIEC Declares PDP Candidate Winner
The runoff election in Ethiope Council Area of Delta State on Wednesday turned bloody as four persons were feared killed and six hospitalised after a clash between thugs loyal to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Labour Party (LP).
THEWILL learnt that three persons were shot dead in Samagidi, near Abraka when rampaging thugs suspected to be loyal to PDP clashed with LP as they tried to snatch voting materials meant for Abraka ward.
The armed youths shot sporadically as they drove through Samagidi in a bid to scare supporters of Labour Party who tried to stop them, the source said.
Wielding dangerous weapons, the armed youths reportedly shot four persons at various spots and injured many, some of whom are still lying in critical condition at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital where they were referred to and the Eku Specialist Hospital.
There was also violence at Igun Secondary school, Abraka, where party faithful had protested the reported “missing” of result sheet for the polling unit at Igun Secondary school, a development which almost resulted in the lynching of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC)officers.
Local sources told THEWILL that as at 1:40pm at Oria Primary School of Oria-Abraka and Abraka, five persons were said to have sustained varying degrees of injuries as a result of clashes between two of the major contending parties resulting from the alleged hijack of electoral materials in the area.
DSIEC Officer for Ethiope council re-run election, Mr. Ukey Efetobor, attributed the cause of the delay in distribution of electoral materials to agents of the political parties who refused coordinating themselves before the dispatch of voting materials at the Isiokolo Police Station.
The sources said that though the runoff election couldn’t hold in virtually all the polling units in the eight Wards where the runoff election was scheduled to be held, the candidate of the PDP Chief Faith Majamite had been declared winner in the controversial election.
Meanwhile, former Ethiope East transition committee chairman, Chief Sunday Oniorode, said the election went well in his area, adding that though thugs loyal to a political party in the area tried to disrupt the exercise.
Also commenting, member of the Labour Party, LP, in the area, Chief Theophilus Ogboru, alleged that one of the political parties in the area disrupted the voting exercise and stopped voters not loyal to their party from voting.
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