Total pandemonium in Okirika, as voters accuse the governing PDP of stealing electoral materials.
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Archive for April 14th, 2007
Patrick Nagbanton from the Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD).
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The feeling on the street, at the end of a (very bloody) first election day.
We’re in the bottle neck of getting reports in from across the Delta - where the trouble nationally seems to be worst - but the general feeling seems to be that these elections are going very badly. (Both in terms of violence and the process itself.)
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Al Jazeera and Ireland’s Evening Echo are reporting 14 dead in Nigeria’s south.
7 police officers are reported killed in two separate attacks by armed groups in Port Harcourt.
According to the Echo:
A community leader and human rights activist, Patrick Naagbanton, said three police died in the early-morning attack.
A spokesman for an armed gang in the region led by notorious gunman Ateke Tom claimed credit for the attack and said others had been launched in other regions of Nigeria’s vast southern wetlands. No details were available.
As an interesting sidebar to the 2007 Presidential election, here are the results from 2003.
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