Six persons were allegedly shot dead in some parts of the Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State for allegedly snatching ballot boxes during the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections held on Saturday.
Eye witness accounts claimed that some youths snatched the ballots boxes at NKST Primary School in Gboko South and took off, but ran into some soldiers on patrol when they were shot and some of them injured in the process.
Our informant stated that a similar incident took place at Hausa Quarters also in Gboko South.
It was gathered that some of the snatchers who sustained injuries were taken to the General Hospital, Gboko for medical attention with the bodies of the victims deposited in the morgue.
In Agatu Local Government Area, Abube youths were alleged to have attempted to disrupt the voting process, but vigilant security agents moved quickly to stop them.
In Vandeikya Local Government Area, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Benue State, Fr Hycinth Alia, cast his vote at Mbadede in Bako Market Square with other people in high spirits.
Alia commended INEC for improving on the lapses recorded in the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25 and called on all the candidates in the governorship election to accept the results that would be announced by the electoral body.
