The journalists were returning from the polling station when the incident happened and left the victims submerged but the timely intervention of sympathisers rescued the journalists whose mobile phones, cameras and recorders were all completely drenched beyond repair.
INEC Cancels Election In Bayelsa Community Over Violence
November 16, 2019
12:32 pm
Voting has been cancelled in Ologi (Ward 03) of Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA), a senior electoral official has said, following a violent incident that included “seizing” of an electoral official.
The official, Ukuachukwu Orji, who is the INEC supervisory resident electoral commissioner for Ogbia LGA, said members of the Ologi community forcibly prevented election in the riverine area.
“As our people (electoral officers) were coming into the community after crossing the river, they seized them and the materials and burnt all the materials.”
“They chased our people away and seized some but the military rescued them.”
