He disclosed that before the attack, he had received several calls from his polling agent who reported to him that government officials were trooping to the collation centre to influence the results of the election. He noted that based on that development he decided to visit the collation centre located at St. Williams Primary School. Longe, who confirmed the incident to journalists, reiterated his assurances to deploy more officers and to ensure there was no repeat of such ugly occurrence. State chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Comrade Francis Orogu, condemned the assassination attempt on the Senator, alleging that there was a deliberate delay of election results by the ruling party to short-change results of election where his party won massively. “At about 4:00pm of Sunday, no result from the local governments has reached the state headquarters collation centre.”

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2019 04:18 UTC