LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Angry electorates have reportedly beaten a corps member to death for thumbprinting on many ballot papers for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
The corps member who was serving as the ad-hoc staff member for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was caught during the recently conducted election.
He reportedly locked himself in a classroom at a polling unit located at LEA primary school, Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja where he used his thumbprint on many ballot papers to vote for the APC.
It was gathered that while voters came out en masse to cast their votes for their preferred candidates, voters were told that there were no ballot papers for the voting to commence.
The corps member had supposedly isolated himself in a classroom and was embossing his thumbprint on every ballot paper for the APC while people had been waiting for hours for the ballot papers to arrive.
From video footage on the internet, an angry mob descended on the corps member and beat him According to the reports, the beating ultimately caused his demise.