ABEOKUTA—The Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ogun State, yesterday, petitioned Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Department of State Services, DSS, and Commissioner of Police in the state over the alleged existence of fake Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in the state.

ABUJA—Ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial and states Houses of Assembly elections, the Police High Command, yesterday, said that Force headquarters will deploy hundreds of additional police officers to states considered volatile such as Rivers and three other states to ensure peaceful conduct of the elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, yesterday faulted claims by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, that its members in the state have been subjected to continued attacks and were being killed by its political opponents.

A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of four persons — two men and two students — in the custody of Medium Security Federal Prisons, Okene, for attacking Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, a former Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly.

IT came as a rude shock to many because to them it was inconceivable that anyone could contemplate the act of burning of over 200 case files in an Enugu High Court sitting in Nsukka judicial division.