As the Benue South senatorial rerun election gets
under-way, suspected political thugs have used
pieces of broken bottle to inflict injury on an agent
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Otukpo.
We gathered that the victim, Agbo Icha
Emmanuel, had escorted the ballot box along with
INEC officials from INEC office in Otukpo, but on
getting to Idabi polling booth at Otukpi-Icho where
election was to take place, some political thugs tried
to snatch the ballot box.
In the process of preventing them, he was attacked
on the head by one of them.
But for the timely arrival of the police, he would
have been killed.
Meanwhile, the perpetrators were said to have
escaped into the bush.
Reacting to the incident, the Benue State Deputy
Governor, Engr. Benson Abounu described the
incident as unfortunate, but noted that security
agents have been drafted to the scene to forestall
any recurrence.
