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Kogi Poll: Oganinugu Village, With 7,539 Voters, Cut Off

Election in progressFacts have emerged to show that 7,539 residents of Oganinugu in Dekina local government of Kogi state were cut off from the just concluded governorship election in the state.

Greenbarge Reporters reports that a total of 17,454 electorate were actually unable to vote and whose votes were cancelled in Dekina alone.

The incumbent governor, Captain Idris Wada is from Dekina local government.

According to information coming out of the collation centre in Lokoja, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to conduct election in the village because of inadequate security personnel.

It was learnt that it was only two police officers that first accompanied the electoral officers to the village where report had it, that Fulani people recently allegedly attacked the people, leading to fear by the electorate to go to the polling centres to cast their voted. [myad]