Bayelsa gov election: Journalists rescued as boat capsizes in Nun River

A boat conveying journalists across flooded parts of Sampou
community on Nun River in Kolokuma Opokuma Local Government Area of
Bayelsa State capsized and threw the four occupants into the
water.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that the boat was carrying four
journalists covering the governorship elections, including its
correspondent.

The journalists were returning from the polling station when the
incident happened and left the victims submerged.

The timely intervention of sympathisers rescued the journalists
whose mobile phones, cameras and recorders were drenched.

A stretch of about 200 metres along the road leading to polling
unit 4, Ward 6, where the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Senator Douye Diri, voted was flooded, compelling the
journalists to resort to local canoes to cross.

The flood had delayed the setting up of polling stations across
the flooded community to about 10.16 a.m, two hours behind
schedule.

The flood submerged many parts of Amasoma, Yenagoa and parts of
Sagbama, a development that displaced some polling stations.

Diri, who voted at about 10.35 a.m. observed that the elections
were peaceful in his area but regretted that he got reports of
electoral fraud, violence in Nembe, Opolo and Enewari, among others
in the state.

(NAN)

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