The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been forced to suspend the collation of results in Kebbi State following the disappearance of a returning officer.
It was gathered the returning officer for Marafa ward, in Birnin Kebbi, could not be traced since about 2pm on Sunday.
Before the disappearance, he was asked to step aside and reconcile some discrepancies in the result figures he brought to the collation centre.
That was, however, the last that has been seen of him so far with the development holding INEC officials at the collation center to ransom and forcing the electoral body to suspend activities.