By Bala Ibrahim.
Voters have kept hostage security personnel and election officials at Kiyako ward in Birnin kudu local Government area of Jigawa State.
Our reporter gathered that about twenty persons including ad-hoc staffs and agents of the parties
were rounded up and locked off in a class room at Junior secondary school Kiyako over alleged plan to change the outcome of the election.
Also five police officers and seven vigilantes members were also kept hostage at the premises of the ward coalition center.
State chairman of the People’s Democratic party PDP Babandi Ibrahim Gumel while addressing members of the press at coalition center, said the election officials were kept hostage after members of the PDP gathered at the Kiyako ward coalition center to witness the announcement of the results and there was no coalition officer to collect and announce the results.
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“As a result, members of the party converge and kept the election officials hostage untill what they have voted for was declared”
“We are now waiting for the SIEC official to come and announce the whole result for the poling units of the ward where PDP won almost all the 19 poling units in Kiyako Ward”.
He said similar incidents happened at almost all the six local Governments areas where the PDP participate in the election.
The party chairman therefore urged security agencies in the state to make effort to ensure that the results are collated and announce.
A resident of Kiyako who gave his name as Adamu told Nigerian Tracker that the election officials were kept hostage in class room since Saturday around 4:00PM and they will not release them until the election results was announced.
Kiyako ward is a political ward of former Governor of Jigawa State Alh Sule Lamido.
In a Statement signed by special advicer to Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar on Media and publicity Habibu Nuhu Kila said the Governor directed State Independent Electoral Commission SIEC to declare anybody who wins the election from any political party before the conduct of the election.
The statement however urged the people of the state to remind calm and assured that the right of any voters will not be violated as promised by the Governor.
Also State chairman of the state independent Electoral Commission SIEC Adamu Ibrahim said the results would soon be announced.
