PDP CHAIRMAN, BAYELSA GOVT HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER KILLED BY MILITARY MEN
According to an eye witness who spoke with
SaharaReporters, the two victims of the electoral violence were killed while
they were in their houses waiting for the counting of their votes, which had
been concluded in their ward.
mpaging armed men in military uniform have
killed Reginald Dei, a Government House photographer, and one other person at
Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
Dei was killed alongside Seidougha Taribi,
the Ward Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the area.
According to an eye witness who spoke with
SaharaReporters, the two victims of the electoral violence were killed while
they were in their houses waiting for the counting of their votes, which had
been concluded in their ward.
The assailants were said to have moved to the
houses to victims and shot them.
A statement by Chief Moses Cleopas, the PDP
state chairman, issued on Saturday, noted that “the death of Dei and Seidougha
brings the number of those killed by APC thugs, some of who were backed by
soldiers, to three”.
Moses claimed that the thugs were identified to
be working for the APC with the support of some soldiers. They had besieged the
Bassambiri and Oluasiri axis of Nembe Local Government Area, where they engaged
operatives in a shootout all night on Friday.
According to him, the attackers lost a member
in the attack while several others were injured and taken to the hospital in
Ogbolomabiri and Yenagoa.
He accused Chief Timipre Sylva, former
Governor of Bayelsa State, and surveillance contractors in Nembe, Kodjo, as
being behind the violence that rocked Opu Nembe and Bassambiri.
He stated further that “the rampaging APC thugs hijacked the electoral materials for the seven wards of Bassambiri and Oluasiri to Darius Hotel for thumb-printing”.
He stated further that “the rampaging APC thugs hijacked the electoral materials for the seven wards of Bassambiri and Oluasiri to Darius Hotel for thumb-printing”.
Similarly, soldiers protecting Professor
Nelson Brambaifa, the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC), and thugs disrupted the voting in Agbere, Sagbama Local
Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The materials for the elections were said to
have been taken to the residence of Brambaifa, which led to a protest by the
youth of Agbere community in front of his residence.
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