The Kano State Police Command on Thursday said that the 14 sacks
of ballot papers it arrested are not original, but a specimen.
Reports went viral that 17 sacks of thumb-printed ballot papers
with the All Progressives Congress, APC, box ticked were nabbed by
the police in the state.
But, in a swift reaction on Thursday, the command, through its
spokesman, Haruna Abdullahi, said the ballot papers impounded were
not genuine but ‘specimen’ and were not thumb-printed as claimed by
other reports.
Mr Abdullahi revealed that during interrogation, the command
discovered that the ballot papers were Jigawa State bound to be
used for voters’ enlightenment.
“Let me categorically state that the ballot papers are not
thumb-printed and not real. They are just specimen to enlighten
voters in Jigawa State,” he said
Mr Abdullahi added that the two suspects confessed that the
ballot papers were on transit to Dutse, Jigawa State capital, with
the intention to distribute to the rural areas for election
enlightenment.
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