Olayinka Braimoh, the governorship candidate of the Action
Alliance (AA) in Kogi, says he was in police custody all through the voting
period on Saturday.
Braimoh, who spoke to journalists in Kabba town after his
release, said he was arrested along the Kabba-Obajana road while trying to get
to his polling unit on Saturday morning.
The politician said he was held up in a cell alongside his
security and personal aides.
Braimoh said the security operatives arrested him for
finding leftover ballot paper samples, used for voter education, in the trunk
of one of his vehicles.
“I have been kept in
custody for almost the whole day today. I was coming in from Lokoja early hours
of today and we got stuck in the traffic at Kabba junction after Obajana,”
Braimoh said.
“There were several hundreds of trucks on the road, so we
could not manoeuvre our way to come out of that place fast.
“Eventually, we were able to come out of there. So we got to
the first checkpoint around Okeboko, our vehicle was searched, nothing was
found. We were not carrying cash.
“After that, we were released and the next thing we saw was
this bus overtook us and went ahead to wait at the next checkpoint.
“EFCC operatives came out from the bus with some policemen
and the next thing was they searched again and they saw the leftover of our
flyers in the trunk of the trucks.
“The next thing was they said we were carrying ballot
papers. That was ridiculous because it is clearly stated here that this is a
ballot paper sample.
“They took us to the area command and we were all locked up.
Both the police and every personnel, they pushed us inside the cell and locked
us up inside the cell.
“They collected our
phones and kept us incommunicado for most part of today.
“So I don’t have any information, as I speak to you, regarding
the election today until I get the feedback because my phones were collected
and my batteries went flat.
“So, I will need to get an update before I can make any comment about the election.”
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