{"id":5546,"date":"2023-11-11T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T10:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2023-11-11T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T10:44:22","slug":"unidentified-hoodlums-invade-polling-units-in-bayelsa-hijack-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/11\/unidentified-hoodlums-invade-polling-units-in-bayelsa-hijack-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified Hoodlums Invade Polling Units In Bayelsa, Hijack Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some yet to be identified hoodlums have invaded polling units in Sagbama local Government area with heavy gunshots and hijacked election materials.<\/p>\n<p>At about 9 am at Agorogbene, units 6, 7 and 8 in Ward 11 of the Local Government, suspected thugs from Southern Ijaw allegedly escorted by a certain politician chased away voters and destroyed election materials.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts by the electorate to challenge the armed men were replied with heavy gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>Also around 9 am, the armed thugs stormed the RAC centre and carted away election materials for five out of the seven units.<\/p>\n<p>The ward 11 leader of one of the parties was alleged to have led the armed thugs.<\/p>\n<p>At Ogiadiama Ward 9 in Unit 14 of Southern Ijaw Local Government area, gunmen stormed the unit but were repelled after an emergency call to security men.<\/p>\n<p>Sporadic gunshots were also reported to have been heard around the Imbikiri area of Brass Ward 2 at about 3.30 am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At Famgbe in Yenagoa local Government, thugs were engaged in a gun duel with security agents, with some recorded casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some yet to be identified hoodlums have invaded polling units in Sagbama local Government area with heavy gunshots and hijacked election materials. At about 9 am at Agorogbene, units 6, 7 and 8 in Ward 11 of the Local Government, suspected thugs from Southern Ijaw allegedly escorted by a certain politician chased away voters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5561,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}