SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) – Two ad-hoc staff recruited as Presiding Officers for the December 5 State House of Assembly by-election in Bakura, Zamfara State, have been declared missing.
While submitting her report to the returning officer, the Registration Area Supervisor of Bakura Ward 001, Prof. A’isha Bawa announced that the two INEC adhoc staff were missing.
She also said she was yet to receive results from two polling units as she could not see either the staff nor the election results.
There are fear that the officers may have been kidnapped by bandits as suspected armed bandits on Saturday disrupted the voting process during the State Assembly election in Oroji village in Rini ward of Bakura Local Government Area.
A voter, Suleiman Muhammad Rini said “at about 8:30 am when election officials arrived at the polling unit for voting, a group of armed men suddenly appeared from a forest and headed to the polling unit.”
