Rampaging Armed men in military uninform have killed a Government House
Photographer, Mr. Reginald Dei, and one other person at Oweikorogha,
Southern Ijaw Local Government Area òf Bayelsa State.
Dei was killed alongside the Ward Chairman òf the People’s Democratic
Party in the area, Mr. Seidougha Taribi.
According to an eye witness account, the two victims of the electoral
violence were killed while they were in their houses and waiting for the
votes which had been concluded in their Ward to be counted.
The assailants were said to have moved to the houses to victims to shoot
them to death
The State Chairman òf the PDP, Chief Moses Cleopas, said in a statement on
Saturday 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 had said that thugs identified to be working for the APC with the
support of some soldiers 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 former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, 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.
Similarly, soldiers protecting the Acting Managing Director òf the Niger
Delta Development Commission, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, and thugs disrupted
the voting in Agbere, Sagbama Local Government Area òf Bayelsa State.
The materials for the elections were reportedly taken to the residence of
Brambaifa thereby igniting an ongoing protest by the youths of Agbere
community in front of his residence.