Bayelsa elections: Navy speaks on ‘losing officer to electoral violence’
Flag Officer Commanding the Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Saidu Garba, made the clarification in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Yenagoa.
The flag officer commanding added that though the command lost a rating officer, his death was not related to either any violence or politics. The flag officer commanding said the officer suffered a fatal gunshot wound and later died in a hospital in Brass town.
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