Voting went on peacefully in local government elections in Rivers State despite the police barring officers from providing security for the exercise.
In a video posted on Facebook by Channels Television, election officials can be seen conducting accreditation and voting simultaneously at a polling unit in Ikoku Area, Units 14 and 15 in Port Harcourt City Ward 18.
There seems to have been an impressive voter turnout for the exercise, but police operatives were conspicuously absent…
Read the full article here