Nigeria, March 23 -- The police in Sokoto State have apologised after some officers at a polling unit in the state violently charged at a PREMIUM TIMES reporter while he was on election duty.

Sokoto is one of the five states where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is holding supplementary elections this Saturday.

Taiwo-Hassan Adebayo was amongst the journalists accredited to cover the election by INEC. He was monitoring the exercise shortly after polls opened in Magajin Garri Ward, Sokoto North Local Government Area. He was trying to access one of the polling units under the registration area when he was confronted by a police officer at about 9:30 a.m., Mr Adebayo said in a message to the office in Abuja.

"When I to...