Lagos — No fewer than 41 persons have been reportedly arrested by the Police over alleged violent behaviour during weekend's council polls in the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The FCT Police spokesman, Mr. Moshood Jimoh, disclosed that eight young men were arrested while brandishing machetes and knives in an attempt to disrupt the counting of results in Area 1 within the Abuja Municipal Area Council on Saturday evening while the police anti-terrorist squad and an Armoured Personnel Carrier vehicle had to be brought to the area.
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