A boat conveying journalists
across flooded parts of Sampou community on Nun River in Kolokuma Opokuma local
government area of Bayelsa state capsized on Saturday.
The boat was carrying four
journalists covering the governorship election. They were returning from a
polling station when the incident happened.
Some residents quickly moved in
to rescue them but before then their mobile phones, cameras and recorders had
been 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 (PDP), 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 community.
It submerged many parts of
Amasoma, Yenagoa and parts of Sagbama, a development that displaced some
polling stations.
Diri, who voted around 10:35am,
said the elections were peaceful in his area but added that he got reports of
electoral fraud, violence in Nembe, Opolo and Enewari, among other areas in the
state.
David Lyon of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) is Diri’s main rival in the election.
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