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The Independent National Electoral Commission offices in 15 States have been attacked by gunmen ,Boko Haram and others in the last three years .
Not less than 50 attacks have been carried out on the INEC Offices between 2019 and 2022 .
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that Imo leads in the incidents with 11 cases while Osun state came second with seven attacks, while Enugu and Akwa Ibom had five attacks apiece.
A document showed that Ebonyi, Cross River and Abia states had four incidents each; while Anambra, had 2; Ogun, Lagos, Ondo and Bayelsa states had one incident each.
According to the document , the incidents included one Boko Haram attack, one bandit attack, 18 attacks as a result of the #EndSARS protests, 20 attacks by unknown gunmen and hoodlums, four, as a result of post-election violence and six, as a result of thuggery during elections.
Also, while there were eight attacks in 2019, 22 in 2020, 12 in 2021, there have been eight attacks in 2022.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary CPS to the INEC Chairman said “these are attacks as a result of election-related violence, protests unrelated to elections and activities of thugs and unknown gunmen.
“The list does not include damages to facilities as a result of fire accidents, natural disasters such as flooding or rain/wind storms, the snatching/destruction of electoral materials during election, burglary and attack on election duty officials”, said
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