Following failure of voting to take place as well as sporadic shootings that happened in other areas, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cancelled the ongoing election in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers state.
It was also gathered that voting couldn’t to take place in Akukutoru Local Government Area because of the massive shooting.
Sporadic shooting has been reported in the area, as seen in a video now trending on social media, but the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state have pointed accusing fingers at each other.
On the other hand, INEC spokesperson in Rivers State, Edwin Enabor, confirmed to PremiumTimes that the commission had cancelled the election in the affected area.
Edwin added that elections in the area would be rescheduled for another date.
“In Bonny, there was no election at all. The exercise there has been postponed. It will hold on another day.”
“Therefore voting did not hold in the affected registration area (ward).”
“The position of the commission is that election will be conducted separately for that registration area later,” He said.