On Saturday, gunmen stormed a polling station in Ayegbami, Ogun State’s Ikenne Local Government Area, destroying a ballot box and disrupting the electoral process.
Ayegbami is a street in Iperu, Ikenne LGA, which is Dapo Abiodun’s hometown.
An eyewitness, who refused to disclose his name for security reasons, said the thugs, who rode motorcycles, invaded the polling unit around 3.40 pm, snatched the ball box and destroyed it.
He said, “Ayegbami polling unit has been destroyed. The ballot box has been destroyed and the papers were scattered on the floor. I had to quickly walk away from the scene.”
A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said immediately after the thugs disrupted the electoral process in the polling unit, they fled.
“Some boys came to the polling unit in Ayegbami, and destroyed the ballot box. The broken ballot box is on the road; they took all the ballot papers and fled. They were on motorcycles,” the resident said.
While some people said the attack was unwarranted, some others said it was sponsored by politicians.
The angry mob, while expressing their grievances against the attack, stormed Ward 3, Polling Unit 003, Iregun, close to the polling unit of the governor.
Attempts to scuttle the electoral process in the polling unit in Iregun were resisted by determined electorates, and security agents, including the police, army, the NSCDC, the NDLEA, among others.
Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he would find out about the attack and get back to our correspondent.
He had yet to do so as of the time this report was filed.