By Gabriel Enogholase, Egufe Yafugborhi & Akpokona Omafuaire

WARRI—Three All Progressives Congress, APC, agents in last Saturday’s council polls in Delta State, allegedly manhandled and wounded by suspected rival political party thugs at Ovwor-Olomu, in Ughelli South Local Government Area, have petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 5 .

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The petitioners, James Akpomudje, Isaac Ikpemeku and Oviri Orakata, through their counsel, Oghenejabor Ikimi, are asking the police to prosecute a councillor-elect, (name withheld) and five others involved the alleged attack.

They alleged in the petition that they were at an Army checkpoint to complain over alleged diversion of voting materials meant for Olomu Wards in Ughelli South Local Government Area when the thugs descended on them.

The petition read in part: “While party agents were escorting election materials from the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, office in Otu-Jeremi, to various wards in Olomu Clan in the Ughelli South LGA in a convoy, some election materials including ballot boxes, were diverted before the army checkpoint in Ovwor-Olomo by the councilor-elect and five others (names withheld).

“It is also our brief that owing to the above development, our clients had no option other than to approach the soldiers at the said army checkpoint to lodge a complaint of the above sinister act of the individuals named.

While lodging the above complaint, a gang of thugs led by the councilor-elect and the other five individuals emerged and attacked our clients with knifes, axes and dangerous weapons and in the process destroyed the windscreen of our clients’ car and Mr. James Akpomudje, our client was stabbed while the said soldiers stood hands akimbo.”