February 23 elections in Akwa Ibom: A reporter’s diary
for some time. Deputy Political Editor RAYMOND MORDI, who monitored the polls in Akwa Ibom State, recounts his experience.
This is because two persons were killed and 13 of the buses hired by INEC to distribute election materials were burnt in Akwa Ibom Northwest zone on the eve of the February 16 when the elections were initially scheduled to hold. The two major parties, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state and the opposition All Progressives Congress had been trading accusations.
A party agent who spoke to our reporter said ad-hoc staff passed the night at the centre, with the hope of carrying their materials to their duty posts at dawn. But, they were still there as at 9.25am, waiting to receive the materials. The agent said a power generating set was provided to illuminate the centre and facilitate the sorting out of the materials. Nobody could say precisely why the distribution of the materials was delayed.
As at the time the reporter called at Ita Enang’s Polling Unit 2, Ward 2 in Ididep, Ibiono Ibom, words had started making the rounds among journalists covering the election that there had been confrontations between supporters of the two major parties. Ididep also happens to be the community where the Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Dr. Iniobong Essien, an accomplished medical practitioner, comes from.
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