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Some reporters sustained injuries yesterday when hired thugs attacked the venue of a press conference by the Sagbama Local Government Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

Chairman, Federated Correspondents’ Chapel, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council, Mr Tife Owolabi, was among those injured as the thugs hit them with rods.

Owolabi bled from the forehead and left hand while Jacobson Park of People’s FM 93.1 had swelling in his hand where he was hit with a flagstaff.
Everyone scampered for safety and the event was halted until security men, including the state security outfit, Operation Doo Akpo, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Police, arrived at the venue.
Abeke said: “In the 2023 National Assembly, Presidential and gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, they openly worked for Governor Douye Diri and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. They made no pretence about their anti-party activities.

“It is on this note that we, the under-signed executives of the Sagbama Local Government Area APC, hereby suspend them indefinitely from the party.

“Their suspension is hereby transmitted to the State Executive Committee of our party for ratification