Facts emerged on Sunday on how uniformed and plain-clothes security operatives loyal to the former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, allegedly battered some ad-hoc staff of the Indepen
dent National Electoral Commission in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
He said they were in the process of verification and collation when Akpabio stormed the venue with several uniformed and plain-clothes men. The lecturer said, “Suddenly, Nse Ntuen emerged and picked up a plastic chair, murmuring that the electoral officers were not cooperating with them. I escaped by God’s grace because he was about smashing my head with that chair, when he suddenly saw another fat man with a Peoples Democratic Party tag and he unleashed the chair on him mercilessly.
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