Voter Registration: Ikole LG Chair's Wife Leads Thugs To Attack Man, Electoral Officials

The ongoing voter registration Ikole-Ekiti in Ikole Local Government of Ekiti State witnessed a bizarre spectacle today, as the wife of the Chairman of the council, Mrs Kemi Adeyanju, led thugs to the registration centre at the INEC office in Ikole-Ekiti to attack people perceived as not having sympathy for the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Trouble started when Mrs Adeyanju arrived the centre and saw one Ayodeji Ayebogan, a member of the opposition party, who was mid-way into his biometric registration by INEC in preparation for the 2018 governorship election.

Mrs Adeyanju did not feel comfortable with Ayodeji registering and, surprisingly, asked him to vacate his seat for her to register PDP members that the woman had mobilised to register in the exercise.

Ayodeji resisted, arguing that he was already half-way into his registration. Explanation by the registration officer asking the woman to allow Ayodeji complete his registration fell on deaf ears, as the woman slapped the young man. She was joined by thugs to beat the man and tore his cloth.

The other electoral officers, who intervened, were also attacked by the thugs and their cloths torn.

Pandemonium ensued until  policemen were called in to restore order.

As we speak, Mrs Adeyanju and some of her boys are in Ikole Police Station helping the police in their investigation.

It will be recalled that Governor Ayodele Fayose had given the local government chairmen a marching order to ensure that opposition members are shut out of the ongoing registration to give PDP an edge in the next election in the state.


By Tunde Adetunji