Several people, including two soldiers and four police officers, have been killed in clashes following gubernatorial elections in Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state, an election monitor has told the Associated Press news agency.
Gunmen men from rival political parties opened fire after the result was announced on Sunday, Philip Okolo of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice is quoted as saying.
Incumbent Governor Dickson Seriake of the People’s Democratic Party PDP) won the vote by a landslide, defeating Timipre Sylva of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) .
The election was a re-run because violence and the theft of ballot boxes marred the 5 December poll in former President Goodluck Jonathan’s home state.
Despite a relative calm, militants are still active in the oil-producing Niger Delta region which is the source of most of Nigeria’s income.
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