Nigeria, March 9 -- Armed thugs have violently carted away voting materials including ballot boxes, ballot papers, result sheets and card readers across many polling units in Ogor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State.

Electoral officials and voters said they lost valuable items including mobile phones, bags and jewellery.

The Presiding Officer for Polling Unit 002 A and B, Ward 1, Central Primary School, Umuhitta Ntu, Deborah Aigbata, said she cried when the hoodlums demanded to see her.

According to her, as soon as the hoodlums arrived with dangerous weapons including guns and bottles, she ran into the nearby bush and heard them demanding to see her so as to sign the result sheets.

She said: "Immediately they came, they displaye...