The Bayelsa Police Command said on Saturday that normalcy had been restored in Oporoma, headquarters of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state where violence broke out as the people of Bayelsa voted in the governorship election.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Asinim Butswat, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa.
According to him, 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.
“We are recording success in other local government areas such as Brass, Nembe, Sagbama, Kolokuma/Opokuma and Yenagoa,’’ the police spokesman said.
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