The Anambra Police Command, says they have unravelled a sex factory in the state where underaged girls are used as sex slaved and some of them as baby factory.
In a press conference held in Onitsha area Command, the Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng said 31 females and 4 pregnant ladies were rescued during the raid at the their hotel; Gally Gally in Nkpor on the 13th of June, 2022.
Echeng said the arrest followed a rigorous analysis of crime trends and pattern in the area, adding that three persons were arrested for their involvement, a pump action and the sum of N877,500 recovered.
“Following a rigorous analysis of crime trends and pattern, the Command Operatives on 13th June, 2022, working on information bursted a hotel named Gally Gally in Nkpor where they use children between the ages of 14years – 17years for sex slaves, prostitution and baby factory.
“The Operatives rescued, 35 girls and 4 of them are pregnant. The police also arrested 3persons namely: Mrs Ifeoma Uzo age ‘F’ 35yrs, Chidiebere Alaka ‘M’ 28years and Nweke Chidiebere.
We recovered three pump action gun, seven cartridges and cash sum of Eight hundred and seventy seven thousand, five hundred naira (#877,500). The Suspects arrested are being interrogated with a view to eliciting information on their involvement and unmasking other gang members.”
The Police boss in the statement signed by DSP Ikenga Tochukwu also said that the rescued victims will be handed over to NAPTIP “for their welfare and rehabilitation of the children”, while “all the suspects will be charged to court at the end of investigations.
The Anambra Police also “adviced parent and guardian to always create a deliberate relationship with their children and wards as it will help to guide and direct them in their activities. It will help to monitor against unforeseen issues and bad company.”
David Umahi, governor of Ebonyi, says the state will vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and not the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election.
While Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos governor, is the presidential candidate of the APC, Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra, is that of the LP.
Recently, Obi has been gaining momentum in the south-east after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Umahi contested the ruling party’s presidential ticket but lost out to Tinubu after polling 38 votes.
The Ebonyi governor has since accused APC delegates in the south-east of selling their votes.
Speaking at the swearing-in of new commissioners and aides at the government house in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital, Umahi said the states that LP has helped should vote for Obi.
“Our party is APC and not the Labour Party. We will not vote for the Labour Party. We will vote for APC,” he said.
The states that the Labour Party has helped should vote for them.
The agenda of God for Ebonyi state is Ebonyi state agenda and that is what you should be telling them when they come to ask you, will you vote for me. Tell them not to look for our votes, our votes belong to APC.”
The governor also expressed dismay that the state is not recording high registration of voters.
“It is very unfortunate that the different local government areas in the state are yet to witness high turnout of voters’ registration in the state, apart from Afikpo south that has so far registered over 71,000 voters, others are yet to make any meaningful impact,” he said.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria pulverized lowly rated Sao Tome and Principe in Agadir, Morocco, in the second matchday of Group A African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
The Eagles confirmed their superiority over Sao Tome and Principe with a 10-0 thrashing.
It was also a match with many firsts and the biggest ever win in Nigeria’s history since the Eagles trounced neighbours Benin Republic 10-1 in 1959.
Victor Osimhen scored four times to match Rashidi Yekini’s feat against Burkina Faso in a 7-1 win in 1991.
Jose Peseiro elected to move Calvin Bassey into the centre of defence with Semi Ajayi in the injury-enforced absence of William Troost-Ekong, which meant Zaidu Sanisi started at left-back.
In attack, Terem Moffi came in for Umar Sadiq while Joe Aribo lost his place to Oghenekaro Etebo while Ademola Lookman replaced Samuel Chukwueze.
Osimhen started the ball rolling with a thumping header after good work down the left flank by starting captain, Moses Simon. Moffi tried his luck from distance in the 19th minute but his effort was straight at Anastacio Braganca.
Osimhen, always playing on the shoulder and caught offside on two previous runs, broke free in the 28th minute off a scooped Aina pass and laid on for Simon.
Two became three in the 43rd minute when Osimhen laid on for Moffi, who showed great feet to sidestep Nilton before powering home. It was the Lorient striker’s first goal for Nigeria in his fourth appearance.
The Islanders had shipped five goals against Guinea Bissau and the Eagles were showing no respite
The Eagles were quickly into their stride in the second half as Osimhen scored his second of the afternoon with a header from a cross by Lookman. This was a sign of what was in the offing.
In the 55th minute, Etebo scored straight from a free-kick from the edge of the box. It was the midfielder’s first goal for the Eagles since March 2021. Moffi added his second on the hour after great work down the left by Sanusi.
Lookman joined the party by scoring his first goal for the Eagles in the 70th minute, pouncing on a rebound after Braganca made a save from Moffi.
Osimhen added his third and fourth goals in the 65th and 84 minutes as the Eagles chased a record score line.
Osimhen hit the goal framework in 87 minutes and headed off target in the 88th as the green wave continued.
Emmanuel Dennis won a penalty in the first minute of added time and Dennis was gifted the chance to score his first goal for his country and he duly complied to give the Eagles their biggest ever win in their history.
This is how the Group A table looks currently with Sierra Leone-Guinea-Bissau set to be played later this evening. Super Eagles and the Djurtus both the nations expected to advance with the next games scheduled for September.
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who was the presidential candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, could only poll 589 votes.
In a letter written to the National Chairman of ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, Kingsley Moghalu said the conduct of the election “revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.”
He said his resignation is with immediate effect, while noting that his sacrifices for the party was jettisoned for an immediate gain during the primary election and accused Nwosu of not providing a level playing field contrary to his memo to the aspirants before the contest.
The resignation letter dated June 13th reads:
I am writing to hand in my resignation from my membership of the African Democratic Congress, effective immediately.
I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022 at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.
Despite the circular you issued a few days to the primary committing the party to providing transportation and accommodation for delegates to and in Abeokuta, and which as we agreed would provide a level playing for all the presidential aspirants, the party under your leadership failed to do so. Some aspirants, including myself, made donations to the ADC party account as requested by the party for this purpose. This failure, which appeared intentional, created room for massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates. This is only one of numerous inconsistencies and the absence of transparency and predictability in the management of the party that I had progressively complained about.
As you are well aware, I have consistently resisted pressures to join the APC or the PDP precisely to avoid “cash-and-carry” politics. For me to remain a member of the ADC therefore, after what thousands of party members participated in at Abeokuta, would be to endorse political corruption of a most obscene order.
I joined the ADC in October 2021 with the best of intentions. Since then, I have put my entire team to work on growing and improving the party, including raising the party’s visibility on all media platforms, recruiting more than 10,000 new members to the party, and providing new offices for various state chapters of the party at my expense. It is deeply regrettable that other inducements appear to have played more important roles in determining the outcome of the primary than loyalty to the party.
Presidential aspirant on the platform of African Democratic Party (ADC), Kingsley Moghalu, has dumped the party after he failed to pick the ticket of the party in the June 8th presidential election primaries.
Moghalu was defeated by the founder of Roots Television Nigeria, Dumebi Kachikwu, who garnered 977 votes in the primary election of the party that was held in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who was the presidential candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, could only poll 589 votes.
In a letter written to the National Chairman of ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, Kingsley Moghalu said the conduct of the election “revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.”
He said his resignation is with immediate effect, while noting that his sacrifices for the party was jettisoned for an immediate gain during the primary election and accused Nwosu of not providing a level playing field contrary to his memo to the aspirants before the contest.
The resignation letter dated June 13th reads:
I am writing to hand in my resignation from my membership of the African Democratic Congress, effective immediately.
I have resigned because the process and conduct of the party’s presidential primary on June 8, 2022 at Abeokuta revealed a fundamental clash of values between me and your leadership of the party.
Despite the circular you issued a few days to the primary committing the party to providing transportation and accommodation for delegates to and in Abeokuta, and which as we agreed would provide a level playing for all the presidential aspirants, the party under your leadership failed to do so. Some aspirants, including myself, made donations to the ADC party account as requested by the party for this purpose. This failure, which appeared intentional, created room for massive abuses of the electoral process including delegate capture and financial inducement of delegates. This is only one of numerous inconsistencies and the absence of transparency and predictability in the management of the party that I had progressively complained about.
As you are well aware, I have consistently resisted pressures to join the APC or the PDP precisely to avoid “cash-and-carry” politics. For me to remain a member of the ADC therefore, after what thousands of party members participated in at Abeokuta, would be to endorse political corruption of a most obscene order.
I joined the ADC in October 2021 with the best of intentions. Since then, I have put my entire team to work on growing and improving the party, including raising the party’s visibility on all media platforms, recruiting more than 10,000 new members to the party, and providing new offices for various state chapters of the party at my expense. It is deeply regrettable that other inducements appear to have played more important roles in determining the outcome of the primary than loyalty to the party.
Disappointment was powdered on the faces of many of the young people around me when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo did not win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). To them, Osinbajo was one candidate they could connect with: articulate, urbane, agile and modern. One who is connected to the ordinary Nigerian — he is there for them when there is a blast, when there is a gruesome murder, when there is an accident or when there is a terror attack. I argued with quite a number of them that party politics is about structure and alliances, that it would be easier for Osinbajo to win a general election than the APC presidential ticket. It sounded like Greek to them.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu, on the other hand, comfortably won the race for the APC ticket, sweetened by the amazing depth of support from northern governors and a spate of withdrawals by his rivals. The joke of the day was that while other contestants were busy buying delegates, Tinubu was buying the aspirants. However, restricting Tinubu’s victory to the single narrative of his financial power will not tell the whole story. For decades, Tinubu had been building a national and battle-tested political structure to actualise his life ambition of becoming president of Nigeria. What happened at the Eagle Square was more than what we saw at the Eagle Square.
All efforts had been made to stop Tinubu in the last couple of years. The ouster of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the APC national chairman, the prolonged stay of Mai Mala Buni as the caretaker chairman, the last-minute truncation of the election of Senator Tanko Al-Makura as APC chairman, the adoption of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as party chairman, the battle over whether or not there should be direct or indirect primaries, and the last-minute introduction of Senate President Ahmad Lawan into the race, among other things, were all contrived to stop Tinubu. Even the removal of Mallam Ibrahim Magu as EFCC chairman was allegedly because of his closeness to Tinubu.
After the election of the new national working committee (NWC) in March 2022 in which Tinubu could get only one of his nominees on board, obituary writers were already preparing a draft article on the end of his political career. I do not have all the inside details, but the week leading to the June 6-8 presidential convention apparently proved to be probably the most important in Tinubu’s career: he got the northern governors to insist on power shift to the south, thereby stalling a real attempt to foist Lawan on others as the “consensus candidate”. Any politician in an underdeveloped democracy who triumphed in spite of these high-level plots and schemes deserves respect, no matter how tiny.
Before the convention, President Muhammadu Buhari had asked the governors to let him choose his successor to reciprocate his relationship with them. Unlike President Olusegun Obasanjo, Buhari never removed any governor. He did not impose a successor on any. When he asked them to reciprocate his gesture, the impression we got was that he was about to pick someone, present him to them and that would be a done deal. But the rumour that Lawan, another northerner, was the one about to be anointed raised the temperature in the room. Adamu even confidently informed the APC NWC that Lawan was the chosen one. The response was hostile. The idea was brought in dead.
Buhari finally backed down, basically saying he was no longer going to choose his successor. There is a lot to say about the way Buhari handled his succession, but we can forgive him because there is also a lot to say about how he has handled almost every important matter since he came to office in 2015. But it appears his strategists, assuming they can be so called, were only interested in stopping Tinubu. They became stuck when Tinubu refused to budge. It was complicated by the Electoral Act which clearly stipulates how a consensus candidate can be picked: every aspirant must agree to withdraw — and in writing. Tinubu was never going to agree. Never. He always wanted a contest.
The stage is now getting set for a grand battle between Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential flagbearer of the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This is not an attempt to rule out other candidates — I still believe the gap between the primaries and the elections proper is so long a lot can still happen along the way. But if we use current data for our workings, APC and PDP are the top political parties by a million miles. Both of them control over 95 per cent of elective offices across Nigeria. Any party that wants to upset this has to build a nationwide support base between now and the 2023 general election. That is the home truth.
That said, there is virtually nothing to choose between Tinubu and Atiku. They are birds of a feather. Both are products of the botched transition programme of President Ibrahim Babangida that was to birth the Third Republic in 1993. A friend calls them “Class of ’93”. They both belonged to the Peoples Front of Nigeria (PFN), the baby of Maj-Gen Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (rtd). Other notable members were Babagana Kingibe, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (Shehu’s younger sibling who would be elected president in 2007). The association was not registered as a party and was forced to dissolve into the government-created Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1989.
Tinubu, meanwhile, was elected as a senator in 1992 while Atiku sought to be governor of the newly created Adamawa state. He won the governorship primary election but was disqualified by the military government which was in the habit of cancelling elections. But Atiku would later enter the presidential race when the older Yar’Adua, his mentor, was disqualified after winning the SDP presidential primary in 1992. The primaries of the two parties — the other being the National Republican Convention (NRC) — had been cancelled and “old breed politicians” banned, so Yar’Adua entered Atiku as his horse in the new race in 1993. Atiku lost. Bashorun MKO Abiola got the ticket.
Tinubu and Atiku remained friends but while the former vice-president participated in the transition programme of Gen Sani Abacha in 1997/98, Tinubu was in exile funding pro-democracy agitations in Nigeria. When Abacha died and a new transition programme was rolled out, Tinubu and Atiku found themselves in different camps — Atiku pitched his tent with the PDP and Tinubu opted for the Alliance for Democracy (AD) which was made up of the forces that opposed Abacha and the annulment of Abiola’s victory. Despite being in different parties, they remained close and Atiku is reputed as helping Tinubu escape the PDP tsunami that swept through the south-west in 2003.
When Atiku fell out with Obasanjo ahead of the 2007 elections, his political career looked over. Obasanjo made sure Atiku would not have any pathway in the PDP to run for president. Tinubu, it was, who offered Atiku a way out — by giving him the ticket of the Action Congress, the party he formed after pulling out of AD in 2006 because of some internal crisis. But Obasanjo was so determined to stop Atiku that he set up an administrative panel to indict him and Prof Maurice Iwu, then-chairman of INEC, quickly dropped Atiku’s name from the ballot. Atiku headed for the courts. Iwu warned us that even if the courts ruled otherwise, it would come too late to reinstate Atiku.
As it later happened, Atiku won his case at the Supreme Court. In fact, Obasanjo declared an emergency public holiday to make sure the court would not be able to sit to deliver judgment, but it all failed. In the end, Iwu organised a sham of a presidential election in 2007, announcing final results while votes were still being counted. In the history of Nigeria, it is only the 2007 presidential election that does not have a state-by-state breakdown. Iwu simply sat down in Abuja and reeled out incredible figures as the final result, even saying only the PDP had a national structure to win a presidential election. He lambasted opposition parties for questioning the conduct and outcome.
Atiku would abandon AC (later renamed Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN) and return to PDP in 2010 to continue his presidential pursuit. It appeared it was at this juncture that Tinubu and Atiku finally parted ways. He felt Atiku should have stayed back to build a strong opposition but was being opportunistic by returning to the PDP because of Yar’Adua’s ill-health and eventual death. But they came back together again in 2013 when the major opposition parties formed the APC. This time, Tinubu was with Buhari and served as a counterforce to Atiku to whittle down his war chest at the presidential primary in 2014. Atiku returned to the PDP years later, after failing to get APC’s ticket.
Atiku and Tinubu are alike on the economic front: they are private sector players who believe in a free market economy, so either would be expected to carry out reforms with significant impact on the economy, including deregulation of the downstream sector and exchange rate. Some will argue that both are of the same age bracket and should have retired from politics for fresher brains and more agile bodies. It is a debate that will not die down any time soon as their supporters market them aggressively. I expect plenty friendly fire in the electioneering. What’s more, both men are perceived to be corrupt, although there have been no convictions since they left office 15 years ago.
Finally, both are Muslims — but Atiku enjoys the luxury of picking a Christian from the south as his running mate. Tinubu is facing what Abiola had to confront in 1993: choosing between a paperweight northern Christian and a heavyweight northern Muslim. Nigerian presidential politics has been pre-programmed thus: if it is a northerner, it must be a Muslim; if it is a southerner, it must be a Christian. Will this be reversed so that it can be a southern Muslim and a northern Christian? Or will religion take the back seat? Tinubu has more thinking and tinkering to do in the coming days. Any direction he faces has implications. But that apart, Tinubu and Atiku are two peas in a pod.
I have often dreamed of when the bruised, battered and butchered people of Nigeria would get a chance to forever retire these bunch of kindless, mindless, Callous and castrated kleptomaniacs that have raped and ravaged the country since 1999!. Then suddenly (perhaps, by a divine master stroke), one Peter, who has no other Obi (except a virtuous, valuable. Visible and verifiable INTEGRITY & SERVICE-ANTECEDENT) burst forth like a Comet! Suddenly the Personality became a Phenomenon! Nigerians now have a golden opportunity to use the Labour Party to launch another END-SAS (End Suffering And Smiling). With the ATIKUNUBU-ing of our political space by APC & PDP, Nigerians (the teeming youth population) need arise like a hurricane and sunami-cally sweep these recycled oldies into the political Bermuda Triangle! They are the reason why Nigeria is not just a ‘failed’ but actually a ‘failure’ state as such! They account for why Nigeria, inspite of enormous endowments, is ‘the poverty capital of the world’! They have made the world mock, jeer and gaze in shock at us as though we are a jig-saw puzzle of some sort! Peter the Rock must be used to break this hypnosis on us. Religion and ethnicism must now take the back seat. Nigerians want someone who would not steal them dry. They want somebody who would not use something called Firstladyism to distract them. They want someone who would not be interested in owning oil wells, lands and houses and bank accounts abroad! They don’t want people with hedonistic and acquisitive mindset. They want someone whose political record is clean, clear and clarifiable. They need someone who would create wealth. Invest in the future and restore the glory of a collapsed giant. They don’t want a religious fanatic or bigot. They don’t want a spendthrift. They want a Mr. Fix It, a problem-solver! They don’t want someone who would be interested in owning 2 wrist-watches at the same time. When one would be at home – keeping time for no one! They want someone who is simple. Straight and strong! Anyone who is angry at the condition of Nigeria and wants it fixed knows that PETER OBI has the pedegry to do the needful for this country. The above, for anyone that knows him, is the personality of Peter! In 2023, let us re-enact June 12, 1993. Let us make a statement that God and humanity would be happy about! The season for poaching and buying of delegates, even with dollars, is now over. It is now time for reality! Let us teach these politicians that we are not robots. Let us remind them what Bob Marley sang many decades ago: ”you fool some people sometimes but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Now you’ve seen the light, you gonna stand up for your right”! We’re all labourers! So let’s labour to vote Peter-the-Rock into Aso Rock! It is not just about the Labour Party, the container! It is about the political purity and integrity of the content-Peter. It’s all about the fact that we shall all party if we labour – from the army of restless and hoodwinked Northern youths to the butchered Middle Belt, from the betrayed and battered Igbo youth to the economically-ravaged and starved Niger-Deltan, and of course the regularly boisterous Yoruba youth,etc. We all, at different times and in various ways, have borne the brunt of a country and her promised change and then changed the promise! Let us end this SAS. the *PVC* IS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE AK-47. They have always believed that we can not do it. Let us show them that we can! And indeed, we will! For were there is a *WILL* then there is a *WAY*. It is no longer about the party it is about the person. for many political parties in Nigeria are at best CLUBS and it worst secret cults! the revolution is on
Governor of Anambra State Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s directive that all kidnappers and other criminal gangs’ hideouts be raided and buildings harbouring them be destroyed was effectively carried out in Oba, Idemili South local government area.
Anambra State Joint Security Task Force conducted the demolition exercise which lasted for more than five hours at the hideout of the notorious kidnappers, an old bungalow building at Oba, Idemili South Council Area.
According to a release by
Christian Aburime, Press Secretary to the Governor stated that the hideout has earlier been raided recently, where exhibits such as locally made pistol, shrine, charms, concoctions, indian hemp, among other incriminating materials were recovered at the building with some arrests also made.
However, it will be recalled that a gang of kidnappers were traced to the hideout by the Police, following an attack and subsequent kidnapp of two persons at Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area, and another two persons in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area.
The gunmen had entered Oko through Nanka for a kidnap operation and were on the verge of succeeding before the prompt intervention of the police special force acting on a tip- off and subsequently engaged them in gunfire.
One of them was killed, but others escaped with various degree of injuries.
The gunman killed at Oko, whose video went viral on some social handles, was identified as a former vigilante who was part of a four-man gang who have been involved in high profile killings and kidnapping within that vicinity
The State police Command Spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga had explained that the command received distress call about the kidnap of two persons at Oko, and while on their trail, they learnt that the gang had kidnapped two more persons at Ekwulobia, and quickly pursued them and were able to track them down.
He explained further that Police operatives working with the vigilante stormed the location, on Sunday, rescued the four victims and arrested one Emeka who was suspected of complicity.
When interrogated, he confessed to the crime and led detectives to the hideout of his gang in Oba, Idemili South, where a shootout ensued.
According to Mr. Ikenga, the gang leader, one Chinedu Ajogu, AKA Sampolo was gunned down and five other persons including their native doctor were arrested for interrogation.
Addressing journalists later at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, Governor Chukwuma Soludo commended the efforts of the State Joint Security Task Force saying the demolition exercise would serve as a deterrent to other criminals.
Governor Soludo explained it has been established that the building demolished was being used as a den for criminal activities, stressing that the government policy does not allow any criminality to reign in the state.
He warned that henceforth, in line with the law, criminals will have no place in any part of Anambra state, assuring that his government is fully determined to ensure that the state is safe for everyone, and that people can move freely around without fear or molestation
He also applauded the cooperation by some people in the state who have been volunteering information, adding that every stranger is suspicious until his or her job is confirmed to be legitimate.
Governor Soludo again re-emphasised that any building being used for any criminal activities will be brought down and confiscated by government.
He also appealed to the people to be security cautious at all times, stressing that they should always report strangers and criminals operating in their communities to Security agencies
The Executive Governor of Anambra State Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has approved the appointment of eleven more individuals into various key positions in the state.
The appointments was announced in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu and made available to newsmen on Friday.
According to the statement, the new appointees and their portfolios include: Rt. Hon Anayo Nebe —Special Adviser, Legislative/State Assembly Matters; Dr. Alex Obiogbolu —Special Adviser, Political Matters; Dr. Godwin Nnadozie —Special Adviser, Medicals and Pharmaceuticals; Dr. Emma Ezenwaji — Chairman of Governing Board, ASWAMA; and Mr. Mike Ozoemena —MD/CEO, Anambra State Waste Management Authority (ASWAMA).
Others include: Dr. Simeon Onyemaechi —MD/CEO, Anambra State Health Insurance Agency; Mr. Tony Ujubuonu — MD/CEO, Anambra State Signage and Advertising Agency; Barr. Raphael Asha Nnabuife —Special Adviser, Local Government Affairs; Mr. Chido Obidiegwu —MD, Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS); Prof. Phil O. Phil-Eze —MD, Anambra State Erosion, Watershed and Climate Change Agenqcy (ANSEWCCA); and Mr. Obumneme Akunyili —DG, Project Monitoring Office
Igbos that turned out en-mass to register and get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) have come under violent attack by suspected indigenes.
According to a video currently trending online, Igbos from South East Nigeria that closed their businesses at Alaba International Market Lagos for the civic exercise said Yorubas came to the registration center and started throwing stones at them.
The event which happened at, Igbede, Ojo local government area of the state. Some of the persons sustained injuries.
In another location, the people that came out resisted attempt by some thugs to carry the only registration machine in the area.
This is becoming a disturbing trend in Lagos State. In 2019, thugs invaded igbo dominated polling units and disrupted voting in this area.
