INEC offices: 3rd attack in 12 days claims 4 lives in Imo
•Attacks systematic, targeted at our facilities – INEC•Says vital election materials safe•3 hoodlums killed, we are out for them - Imo police •Desperate politicians behind mayhem-Uzodimma •Attempts to derail 2023 polls will fail- LP OUTRAGE has greeted the attack on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Imo State, which left no fewer than five persons dead, including two policemen, the third attack in 12 days on the commission offices in the state. INEC; Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Labour Party, LP; and Accord were among those who condemned the attack, which was the 53rd across 29 states that the electoral commission had suffered since 2019. Yesterday’s attack, likened to a warfare with booming explosive devices and massive exchange of gunfire between the hoodlums and security agencies, came on a day the INEC started distribution of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to people, who registered, recently. The INEC raised the al...