Protest In Imo Ahead Saturday’s Re-run Polls

The youths, who were from Ikeduru Local Government area, said that they wanted to be assured of adequate security in the forthcoming Saturday’s supplementary elections in Ikeduru as well as calling for the arrest of the sponsor of the suspected bombers who were arrested in the last election in the area.
It would be recalled that, about 40 booths were said to have been cancelled in Ikeduru, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during the last governorship/House of Assembly election.
It was in the same Ikeduru, collation centre, at central school, Iho that it was reported three persons suspected to be bombers came with explosives device at the collation centre.
They were arrested by the military in the area at the time of collation excercise. However, they also demanded for the arrest of the sponsor of the suspected bombers, who according to them, was an Ikeduru son.
As a result of this development, the youths said that they were afraid of similar thing happening in the Saturday’s election.
According to one of their leaders, Samuel Nwokocha, “We want security to be guaranteed in the election that will hold on Saturday in Ikeduru.
“We are afraid of what happened last time and we are not happy that some people were mentioned as those who sponsored some boys to come and bomb the collation centre, the person is still walking freely. We want him to be arrested.”