Abia bye-Election: Electoral officials flee as explosion disrupts polling init

Panic has erupted in Abia State following the explosion that rocked at a polling unit in ward 8, Ogbor Hill, Aba North on Saturday during the Aba North and South Constituency by-election.

It was that pandemonium was the order of the day aas electoral officials fled the polling unit.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Geoffrey Ogbonna said that an unknown mischief smashed a bottle on the floor leading to the tension.

“Someone smashed a bottle on the floor at one of the polling units, which aroused tension there,” he stated.

There was a report that a collation officer for the All Progressives Congress, APC was kidnapped by unknown gunmen during the election.

Tht PPRO denied the report, saying y “there was nothing like that.”.

The state government had raised the alarm over an influx of hoodlums into the state before to the election.