The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State has been set ablazed by political thugs on Sunday night.
According to report, the office was set on fire because the thugs working for one of the strong politicians in the area assumed that INEC officials of collaborating with people to manipulate the collation of results.
The INEC office was set ablazed of shortly after the collated results from the Isiala Mbano LGA for Okigwe North federal constituency election had been moved out of the electoral commission’s office to Owerri, the state capital, by security men in company of party agents and chieftains.
According to vanguard, an eyewitness said that not even the heavy presence of security men prevented the enraged thugs from committing the havoc.
The source said, “Thugs belonging to one of the candidates accused INEC officials of altering the results of polling units at the collation centre. In anger, they set the INEC office ablaze.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, who confirmed the incident, said those who carried out the dastardly act would be arrested and prosecuted, as investigation into the case of inflammable is ongoing.