Kogi State Police Command has confirmed that armed men waylaid the secretary of the state governorship election Tribunal, Mr David Umar Mike on Monday in Lokoja and seized from him sensitive petition documents on the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state.
The state police command’s PPRO, SP William Aya, disclosed this in Lokoja on December 6th, 2023.
The police authorities said the unknown armed men carted away all the petition documents filed by five political parties at gunpoint.
According to the police authorities, the documents carted away from Mike include, petitions filed by four (4) Parties: Action Alliance (AA), Action People’s Party (APP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) as well as two (2) Record Books/a Bag containing his item.
The police added that the incident happened just before the CBN office at about 1320hrs on Monday.
