Ekiti: APC thugs beat me up, slapped my mum over vote-buying, voter alleges

A voter at Ward 01, Idofin, Odo-Ado, Ado-Ekiti, has alleged that suspected thugs serving the interests of the All Progressives Congress beat him up when he challenged them over vote-buying in his polling unit.

The voter, Bayo Omole (not real name), said the thugs also slapped his mother who went with him to cast his ballot.

Narrating his ordeal to our correspondent in a telephone interview, Omole said he got to the polling unit with his mother to cast his vote for his preferred candidate, and while in the queue, he noticed some irregularities and decided to find out what was going on.

“I stepped out the line to check what was going on, then I realised two young adults…like in their mid-40s or so, they were standing there and were asking those that had already voted, ‘What (party) did you thumb print? Who did you vote for?’ and as the voters replied, the two young men were giving them (the voters) tallies and N10,000 (each),” Omole said.

He said he felt that such was not supposed to happen with the security officers and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission on the ground.

Omole said that kept on going unabated.

“There was a party agent who spoke up against it and he was silenced by the thugs. They punched him and broke his phone,” Omole added.