Polls: Ebonyi records voter apathy, destruction of electoral materials
From Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki
The ongoing governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the country recorded low turn out of voters and violence in some parts of Ebonyi State, especially in Ezza North LGA of the State.
Our Correspondent reports that most of the polling units visited recorded low turn out of voters.
At Amudo Primary School polling unit in Ezza South local government area of the State, one of the voters, Paul Onyia attributed the apathy to difficulties of the voters in accessing their polling units because of lack of logistics.
The situation was the same in Orie Egbe market square polling unit in Ezza South local government.
In Ekwetekwe umuezeoka, it was reported that thugs ambushed and attacked INEC officials coming to conduct elections in the area and burnt all the INEC materials going to about three polling units.
Also, at Omege and Ekka villages in Ezza North local government area, ballot box snatching were recorded.
But the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Benjamin Umezuruike who voted in his Onu Ofukuru polling unit, Umunaga ward 2 in Uburu community, Ohaozara local government area of the state, said he was not aware there apathy until the election was concluded.
Umezurike said: “so far so good. The turn out is so good for the governorship election. But I can’t compare the turn out with that of presidential untill the voting is concluded”.
