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Inspector General of Police, Solomon-Arase

Bayelsa guber: APC accuses PDP thugs of invading Senator Lokpobiri’s home in Ekeremor; APC is unleashing violence on my supporters – Gov. Dickson

Inspector General of Police, Solomon-Arase
Inspector General of Police, Solomon-Arase

NEDU MARK,
YENAGOA

Following the widespread electoral violence that marred the governorship elections in some parts of Bayelsa state, Saturday, All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of hiring thugs that invaded the home of Minister of Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in Ekeremor.

This is as one person was reportedly shot dead and scores of others were injured in what has been described as a gun battle between loyalists of the two parties in the area.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has also cancelled elections in the Southern Ijaw local government Area of the state following electoral violence perpetrated by armed youths in the area.

The attacks in the senator’s home came some hours before commencement of accreditation of voters.

Lokpobiri is the Director-General of the Sylva/Igiri campaign organization.

According to eyewitness accounts, some thugs suspected to have been brought into the state from Delta state stormed the residence of the minister of state in Ekeremor town in Ekeremor Local Government Area in the early hours of Saturday.

It was further revealed that the thugs overpowered security men deployed to Ekeremor and made their way into the Lokpobiri’s compound causing mayhem while the Senator and others were trapped inside the house.

As the security personnel attached to the Minister were making efforts to restore normalcy, the attack intensified to the point that the thugs were said to have taken over the entire community.

The military is said to be making efforts to restore normalcy to the community.

Earlier in the day, Gov. Seriake Dickson who had condemned attacks in some parts of the state, shortly after his accreditation, alongside his wife and mother, had accused Senator Lokpobiri of masterminding the attacks in Ekeremor.

Governor Dickson while speaking in his community, Toru Orua, said, I have received a disturbing reports of premeditated, brutal attacks on my party supporters in Twon Brass and in Ekeremor leading to the death of one person.

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