In the meantime, a chieftain of the APC and a former governorship aspirant from Kpansia in Yenagoa local council allegedly hijacked election materials including results sheets after losing his polling unit at the poll.
According to eye witnesses, confusion started when the result was in favour of the PDP in Ward 9, Unit 7 in Yenagoa. Suddenly, the APC chieftain, a former government official, alighted from a vehicle, with suspected thugs, in a commando style, hijacked the election materials and forced the INEC officials to go with him.
Voters, who gave the vehicle a hot chase in vain, lamented the absence of security personnel at the polling unit.
In the meantime,INEC has declared, last night,that election will continue in parts of Bayelsa where the poll was marred by violence or late arrival of materials, today.
INEC National Commissioner representing South-South, Mr Mustapha Leckey, who disclosed this in Yenagoa during a press briefing, said the election in Southern Ijawlocal council ran into hitches due to clashes between rival parties.
Lecky,who was flanked by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC in Bayelsa State, Baritor Kpagih, commended the election process in part of the state. He said that the election in Southern Ijaw had not been cancelled but will continue today.
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