Voting has been cancelled at Lugbe Primary poling unit 009 following an attempt to rig by the INEC Ad-hoc officials that presided over the election process.
The cancelled voting of Polling Unit 009, Gui Ward under AMAC in FCT, Abuja affected 8,000 registered voters.
Eyewitnesses told newsmen that trouble started when some voters persistently requested that accreditation and voting be allowed to go on simultaneously but the INEC officials refused to heed the advice until voters discovered that some of the officials of INEC were inside a classroom thumb printing for a particular political party.
Angry youths of the poling unit area swooped on the two officials and beat them to stupor. It took the intervention the DPO in-Charge of Lugbe Police Division, Ugochukwu UC and some of his gallant men to whisk the INEC officials away from the scene of the incident.
The rioting voters further vented their anger on the DPO and policemen for shielding the suspected INEC officials, throwing clubs and hurling stones on them before a team of security Joint Task-Force, comprising the military, Mobile Police, Civil Defence, NDLEA and Road Safety came to their rescue.
The arrival of the Joint Task-Force saved the day as it doused the tension and started dispersing the rioting crowd with tear gas and sporadic shooting into the air.
They also went after some of the rioting youths who were later arrested and taken to Lugbe Police Station for interrogation together with the INEC officials.
