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A group, YIAGA Africa has listed arms stockpiling, influx of thugs as some of the early warning signs of trouble ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State. These, it said, may extensively mar the election.
New Telegraph reports that the group which made their fears known Thursday in Yenagoa, the state capital, during a media
parley, reeled out their findings so far
ahead of the election.
The representative of the NGO, Cynthia
Mbamalu said that earlier the group had deployed about 520 observers to the
eight local government areas of the state for the purpose of monitoring the
election.
YIAGA Africa said that it was therefore foreseeing the
outbreak of violence in Yenagoa and Sagbama council areas because of the recruitment of thugs.
The group noted
that their fears have already began to play out since Wednesday
at Nembe Local Government where many were feared dead, including a media
worker, after a clash by supporters of the two main parties, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) at a
rally.
Mbamalu also said that the observers noticed physical and verbal violence in
Southern Ijaw, Yenagoa, Brass, Nembe, and Sagbama local government areas
warning that those were signs of things to come on Saturday if the security
agencies did not live up to the professional responsibilities. Clarior Luxent
