Delta: Heavy Downpour Disrupts Polls, As INEC Officials Run Out Of Thumbprinting Ink

Heavy downpour has disrupted the conduct of the presidential and national assembly elections in some part of Effurun, Uvwie council area of Delta State.

BIGPEN NIGERIA (www.bigpenngr.com) report that accreditation of voters was still ongoing when rain poured in suddenly and disrupted the exercise.

Many enthusiastic voters who thronged Ward 1 unit 5 and 6, Alagbor, Uvwie council area are taking shelter at the corridor of the Alagbor primary school where the election is holding.

Before the downpour INEC officials had complained that they have ran out of the thumbprint ink, a development which infuriated the voters to shout spontaneously “we must vote”.

One of the voter and House of Assembly candidate for Uvwie Constituency under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Ufuoma Gideon Diare, alleged fraud in the voting process, saying that they’re trying to suppress the will of the people.

“People are willing to vote but they’re trying to suppress them with some people who are trying to manipulate things here. INEC has done well compare to previous election in 2015 and 2019.There is a step up compared to previous elections.

“The ink issue appears to be plot to manipulate the election, some people here are trying to be fraudulent but we monitoring them because we must all vote. You can see how people are still queuing up under the rain, it show Nigerians have waken up to their right to vote.

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