The Niger State Police Command conducted a raid on Umar Bago, a candidate for governor from the All Progressive Congress situation room, on Sunday in Minna.
Abdulberqy Ebbo, the director of digital and strategic communications for the Bago campaign organization, who communicated with our correspondent following a Facebook post, claimed that the police stormed the premises and looted the situation room while claiming to be acting on a tip from someone.
Before the APC-friendly polls on Saturday, he claimed that the Divisional Police Officer who oversaw the search had received reliable information that IEC officials were present in the building with sensitive materials that needed to be thumb-printed.
“I got a call that the Situation Room was being searched by the police. I rushed there and asked the DPO what was going on and he said they were informed that INEC staff were in the Situation Room thumbprinting ahead of the governorship elections of Saturday.
“When they finished searching, they discovered that there was no such thing going in the building, at that time, the commissioner for the police had also arrived the premises, so the boys who had the information were arrested for giving false information to the police,” he said.
He claimed that as he approached the building, he saw numerous PDP members standing nearby and realized the report appeared to have been generated by them. The CP stated that establishing a Situation Room wasn’t inappropriate, he continued.