An unidentified member of the Labour Party has been reported to have had his hand severed amidst an ongoing LP presidential campaign rally last week.
Akin Osuntokun, the Director General of Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council disclosed this while honouring an invite with Channels TV on Monday.
The Director stated that there is already an indication that there will be election violence which may affect the results of the forthcoming election on Saturday.
“I won’t score the preparation a 100 per cent, there are some factors that challenge that conclusion. The predisposition to voter suppression through violence, we have been a victim of that especially in Lagos,” Osuntokun said.
“INEC people actually responded to people looking for their PVCs discriminatorily and when we had the rally in Lagos, our supporters were prevented in certain areas from coming to the Tafawa Balewa Square and some of them were injured. As we speak one of them has had his hand amputated.
“So when you take these into consideration, you cannot be confident that this is going to work well.
“And as I remarked once the fact that the BVAS or the electronic transmission introduction to the system is supposed to preclude the possibility of over-voting, but according to the judgement of the tribunal on the Osun State election that was conducted a while ago, the tribunal nullified the victory of the PDP on account of over-voting, now were does that come in?” Osuntokun added.
Peter Obi appears to be a candidate to beat ahead of the forthcoming presidential election on February 25. He has been able to tap into the youth demographic yearnings in his campaign which has become a national awakening.
