{"id":95854,"date":"2022-06-10T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95854"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:20:19","slug":"voters-card-igbo-traders-fight-off-thugs-at-lagos-registration-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/voters-card-igbo-traders-fight-off-thugs-at-lagos-registration-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Card: Igbo Traders Fight Off Thugs At Lagos Registration Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Igbo traders on Thursday fought off a group of thugs who stormed the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos to stop them from registering for the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.<\/p>\n<p>\ufffcPointblanknews.com\u00a0reports that the Igbo traders had shut down their shops to register for the PVCs but were attacked by hoodlums who came to dissuade them from partaking in the registration.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt was gathered that the market union had instructed that all shops be shut down to allow their members ample time to get their PVCs at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC office in the Igbede area of Ojo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the aforementioned ultimatum, there was a massive turnout of traders, mostly of Igbo extraction at the registration point.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, while the registration exercise was ongoing thugs armed with machetes, sticks and clubs were said to have stormed the venue to disrupt the process and also made moves to cart away INEC machines but they were overpowered by the traders.Videos on the incident showed how officials of the market mobilised their members and also show the aftermath of the attack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointblanknews.com reports that the 2019 general lection in some parts of Lagos inhabited by the Igbo was partly disrupted by the invasion of thugs who carted away voting materials on election day.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igbo traders on Thursday fought off a group of thugs who stormed the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos to stop them from registering for the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs. \ufffcPointblanknews.com\u00a0reports&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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