A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Kunle Sanni, was on Saturday morning abducted by political thugs for taking pictures of underage voters at a polling unit in Plateau State.
Mr Sanni, who was monitoring the elections in the area, was accosted by an agent of the ruling All Progressives Congress agent who had spotted him while photographing several young children as they lined up on the queue to vote.
Eventually, after the journalist emerged, he unknowingly walked into an ambush and was promptly forced into a taxi and driven to an unknown destination where his abductors forced him to delete the images. “The men collected my phone which was dead at the time, parked in a bush and plugged the phone to see who I was sending the pictures. When the men confirmed I had deleted them, they offered me money in return,” he said.“I had to accept it so that they did not harm me because the place was bushy and I could get killed,” he said. Mr Sanni said he was given N20,000.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had earlier warned underage voters not to go near polling units in Plateau State ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections.
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