Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said he is not responsible for the deployment of soldiers during Saturday’s senatorial bye-election in the state.
Rather, he said it was the Independent National Electoral Commission that facilitated the drafting of the soldiers for the election.
The governor, who said this while speaking with reporters in Abuja on Thursday, was reacting to the claim by the All Progressives Congress that soldiers either forced voters to stay away from polling booths or that they colluded with agents of the ruling party to perpetrate evil during the election.
In a statement by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on Sunday, the APC said there was no voting in most of the eight local governments and the 85 wards in the senatorial district.
The party alleged that the PDP used armed security agents to chase away voters in opposition strongholds while thugs working under the cover of security personnel beat opposition party agents and seized voting materials in many areas.
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Source: Punch
