Elections was brought to a halt in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano State,\u00a0 following the destruction of some ballot boxes in about 15 polling stations\u00a0 during the governorship\/assembly elections.<\/p>\n
DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that the affected areas include Dugurawa, Jujin Kosau at Ajili ward, Kwangi at Yelwan Dan Ziyal, Akalawa and Futu-futu wards.<\/p>\n
The affected ballot boxes were displayed at the Rimin Gado INEC office.<\/p>\n
An eye witness at Akalawa Ward told newsmen that voting was going on peacefully before someone identified as Secretary hit the table and started destroying the ballot boxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverywhere suddenly became rowdy at the polling. He and other hoodlums destroyed box\u00a0 001, and the same thing was about to start at 002 when people intervened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no security agents present at that time but when they later arrived, they immediately rescued the INEC staff and the election materials to the INEC office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
DAILY NIGERIAN<\/p>\n
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Elections was brought to a halt in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano State,\u00a0 following the destruction of some ballot boxes in about 15 polling stations\u00a0 during the governorship\/assembly elections. DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that the affected areas include Dugurawa, Jujin Kosau at Ajili ward, Kwangi at Yelwan Dan Ziyal, Akalawa and Futu-futu wards. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n