Twelve alleged ballot box thieves have been arrested by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Ciroma, with thumb printed ballot papers.
This incident occurred at CU 010, Asokoro Abuja.
Also suspected ballot thieves snatched a ballot box from a polling unit at Ute-Okpu community in Ika North East Local Government, Delta State, Saturday morning, and took it to an unknown hideout, despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s warning that such persons stand the risk of losing their lives.
It was learnt that he ballot snatchers caught security agents, including soldiers deployed to the area unawares.
However, soldiers cordoned off the area soon after the incident, searching voters and demanding that every person within the surroundings of the polling unit show his or her Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, or be taken as a ballot thief.
A voter, who spoke to newsmen on the incident, said, “There is tension at Ute-Okpu over the incident, the boys of a well-known politician stormed the polling unit, snatched the ballot box and ran away with it in their vehicle. There was nothing the voters could do.”