But with Jonathan having secured some 98% of the vote in Bayelsa during presidential elections in March, the odds are stacked against the APC in the oil-producing southern state.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against announcing any “cooke-up” result coming from Southern Ijaw area, which does not reflect the wishes and aspiration of the people, just as it claimed to have won the Bayelsa state governorship election.
Clashes between rival parties were reported in the Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor, Brass and Nembe Local Government Areas of the state, with the number of casualties skyrocketing.
A woman was killed yesterday as voters went to the polls in tight security to elect a new governor in Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa, officials said. Some 14,000 police officers have been deployed for the election, but the police had no comment on the violence.
The Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation (SICO), which made the allegation on Sunday, said Dickson stormed the place at about 11pm Saturday night and threatened to “deal seriously” with agents of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu, former Deputy Governor and Mr. Fortune Panebi, State Publicity Secretary of the APC.
On Saturday, Bayelsa governor’s spokesman Daniel Iwariso-Markson said the woman had lost her life in a shooting incident in the town of Oporoma, located west of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State.
Governor Dickson alleged that the members of the APC were elements assisting the Federal APC to hijack the state and conquered the people.
The APC has also asked for the cancellation of the result alleging rigging by the PDP.
The chairman also said that the security situation had been confirmed to be worse in the creeks and other neighbouring communities.
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“He has neither breached any electoral law nor the constitution, because he was there around 6:00 a.m., while the election process didn’t take place until 2 in the afternoon”.
