INEC cancels Dogara’s constituency result | Nairalaw

….Police arrest one in collation centre

Palpable tension took over the Professor Mahmood Yakubu
Conference Hall where officials of the Independent National
Electoral Commission are collating results of the governorship and
State House of Assembly election in Bauchi.

The tension was caused by the cancellation of the results of
Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area by the Returning Officer and
Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology in Yola,
Prof. Kyari Mohammed.

The PUNCH reports that Tafawa Balewa LGA is the stronghold of
the Peoples Democratic Party and one of the three LGAs in the
constituency of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu
Dogara.

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Already, security agencies have arrested a yet-to-be-identified
ally of a prominent politician over allegations that he was trying
to cause trouble.

The Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga, told
journalists on Sunday at the venue of the collation centre that the
suspect was apprehended over allegations that he was threatening
the Collation Officer for Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area, Mrs.
Dominion Anosike.

Anosike had said that armed hoodlums invaded the collation
centre in the LGA where she was forced to announce the results.

According to her, there was violence in the collation centre and
election results sheet carried away, adding that “police had to
rescue us because our lives were at stake.”