The Bayelsa Police Command said on
Saturday that normalcy had been restored in Oporoma, headquarters of
Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.
Mr. Asinim Butswat, the Public Relations Officer of the command stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa.
Butswat said the command had received report of a clash by rival groups which disrupted the electoral process in the area.
He said one person was injured during the clash, while the police arrested some suspects in the process.
“We have made some arrests and normalcy has been restored in the area. Security reinforcement was sent to Oporoma and we can say that the electoral process had commenced there,” he said.
He said information available to the police showed that no life was lost during the clash.
He also said that accreditation had commenced in some parts of the area.
“We are recording success in other local
government areas such as Brass, Nembe, Sagbama, Kolokuma/Opokuma and
Yenagoa,” the police spokesman said.
He said the governorship election in
these areas had been peaceful while security agents were on high alert
to check any breach of the law.
Source: Punch Nig
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