Nigeria, March 23 -- Armed thugs were seen in many polling units visited on Saturday morning during the supplementary governorship election in Kano State.

Many voters and supporters of a political party claimed the thugs were there to intimidate them from voting.

A PREMIUM TIMES reporter who observed the elections witnessed the presence of the thugs with various weapons such as sticks and knives around some of the polling units visited in Rimin Gado Local Government Area and other parts of Kano.

"High presence of political thugs with heavy weapons is observed in all the polling units visited so far.

"However, they stay a distance away from the polling units," said Sani Tukur, a journalist observing the elections.

When Mr Tukur and ot...