Nigeria Decides: Gunmen attack polling units, burn ballots papers in Lagos
Some unknown gunmen have attacked and disrupted the presidential and National Assembly election at some cluster units in Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the gunmen, numbering more than six, came on motorcycles to the area and started shooting to scare away the voters.
NAN learnt that the gunmen attacked Owoseni, Ijaye, Branco, Owolabi, Fadeyi streets amongst others that formed the cluster units, collected some of the ballot boxes containing papers already thumb-printed and set them on fire.
“The unknown gunmen came in around 12 noon and started shooting. They collected some of the thumb printed ballot papers and set them on fire.
“The hoodlums ran away when armed police and soldiers arrived the place,” Mr Jonah Obisanya, an electorate said.
The Commissioner of police in Lagos State, CP Idowu Owohunwa, who visited the area at about 1.07 p.m. evacuated 25 Ad-hoc INEC officials from the units attacked and took them to the police command headquarters.
The officials were later taken to Oshodi Local Government Council with electoral materials.
Owohunwa said that some suspects have been arrested in different parts of the state for electoral offences.
He, however, did not mention the number of arrests made, stressing that a comprehensive number of people arrested will be made known to the public.
