2023 Election

Women protest as thugs snatch, disrupt voting process in Ife

No fewer  than 30 women in unit 3 ward 17 Oja Tutu area in Ife Central area of Osun state pretested during the voting period as suspected political thugs allegedly destroyed ballot boxes and  chased voters away.

The women who were almost weeping while speaking with Newsmen said hoodlums have denied them their rights to vote .

They were seen protesting within the confine of their voting unit just as they accused opposition party of being the brain behind the action of the thugs  preventing them from voting.

Speaking with journalist, one of the women who refused to disclosed her name said some suspended hoodlums stormed their polling unit armed with dangerous weapons asking to vote for a particularly candidate contrary to their wish.

Her words, “Some political thugs working for opposition party brought some hoodlums to attack us, denying us from voting against their choice of candidate into the State House of Assembly.

” Can you force  somebody to vote for your candidate when he or she had already made up his mind on whom to vote for, what kind of county are we. Because we refused to vote for the Candidate they want us to vote for they snatched and made away with ballot boxes and went away, “she lamented.

However, our  correspondent observed that there were no single security agencies on ground to confirmed the report

The  protesting women pleaded with the journalists to help publicise  their ordeal in the hands of thugs having their free day.

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