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\nA team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command wrrr at the scene to apprehend suspects.<\/p>\n
Some ballot boxes at Polling Unit 18 located at junction of Ohafia\/Ago Palace Way, Okota in Oshodi\/Isolo LGA of Lagos State have been set on fire.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who witnessed the incident reports that the Polling Unit 23 located on Baba-Ewe Street\/Ago Palace Way was also affected by the fire<\/p>\n
INEC ad-hoc staff at the polling units as well as voters who came out to cast their votes ran away from the polling centres for safety.<\/p>\n
\nA team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command wrrr at the scene to apprehend suspects.<\/p>\n
As at the time of this report, the INEC ad-hoc staff and voters had yet to return to the units.<\/p>\n
Also, at Polling Units, 035 and 036 located at Adeneken St.\/Alhaji Olusesi Street Junction and Adeneken Street\/ Olusesi, Ago Palace Way, respectively, a group of young men in tricycle and motorcycle disrupted the exercise by attempting to force voters to vote for a particular candidate.<\/p>\n
A team of SARS intervened, shooting in the air. The team arrested some of the suspects.<\/p>\n
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, confirmed the crisis at Okota, saying that he had ordered the area commander to be on top of the situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some ballot boxes at Polling Unit 18 located at junction of Ohafia\/Ago Palace Way, Okota in Oshodi\/Isolo LGA of Lagos State have been set on fire. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who witnessed the incident reports that the Polling Unit 23 located on Baba-Ewe Street\/Ago Palace Way was also affected by the fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[127,38,251,165,197,237],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-candidates","tag-election","tag-inec","tag-police","tag-states","tag-thuggery"],"yoast_head":"\n