Blood Bath At Jonathan's Presidential Rally In Port Harcourt: Scores Crushed To Death

By SaharaReporters, New York

Scores of Nigerians lost their lives at the Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt on Saturday in a stampede which occurred at a Goodluck Jonathan campaign rally.

Police sources at the venue of the rally confirmed to Saharareporters that no fewer than 12 persons have died as a result of the stampede, which was caused by police shooting.

But eyewitness accounts contradicted the police figure, calling it an ‘understatement’ calculated to avoid embarrassing the President in his home state.

The incident began as policemen attached to the president shot sporadically into the air.  In addition to the dead, the stampede also left some 50 people injured.

The identity of the dead and injured could not immediately be ascertained.  Those who suffered injuries were said to be receiving treatment at several hospitals within the city of Port Harcourt.

An estimated 250,000 supporters, including tens of thousands from Akwa Ibom State, had besieged the Liberation Stadium, which has a capacity of less than 100,000, for the flagging-off of the Jonathan/Sambo rally in the South-South region.

Present at the rally were the Governors of Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, each of whom was more interested in receiving party flags for their re-election bid than the human casualties that resulted from the rally.

Before the stampede today, Jonathan’s convoy was also engaged in a ghastly auto accident on Aba Road that left two people dead.

Our reporters noted that contractors to the federal government distributed money to youths in the area to attend Jonathan's rally in Port Harcourt following his unimpressive outing in the North.

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SAHARA REPORTERS, I THANK YOU BUT BE CONCIOUS IN MAKING STATEMENT THAT CAN RADICLE A PRESIDENT AND OUR NATION NIGERIA. WHEATHER YOU AGREE OR NOT JONATHAN/SAMBO TICKET REPRESENTs A SIMBLE OF UNITY IN NIGERIA. BUHARI IS NOWHERE IN POLITICS BUT A FANATICS A CORRUPT LEADER, SOMEBODY WITH VERY UNFORGIVEN SPIRIT. I KNOW HE CAN NOT BEACAUSE FOR JUST NO REASON MANY NIGERIANS LIKE IBB, OBJ SOLO, GANA WILL JUST BE IN PRISION.

@ Elmango Meat

I am a Nigerian and not an Englishman. Maybe, unlike me, you were privileged to acquire a quality education. But, that depends on what you call "quality". I don't think it is necessary to be grammatically sound in order to express one's opinion. It may be that I never studied English at school. OK let's talk.

1. I don't think I hate hausa/fulani's, but just that I hate their attitudes and ideologies. You will agree with me that the problems we face today was due to the 50 years of hausa/fulani "colonial" rule. The took their turns to rule Nigeria just to exploit the nation and impoverish the people. All of the current problems that Nigeria faces as a nation were due to the reckless leadership of these people. The mess they dragged Nigeria into for 50 years is what they expected GEJ to clean in one year. Nigeria was branded a "terrorist" nation because of them. It was the same GEJ that pleaded with US for a reconsideration. The monies they squandered for 50 years were all from the Niger Delta, yet, they are angry that a Niger Delta man is president for just one year. I'm still wondering what they think of the Niger Delta people. Do they think that Niger Deltans are their slaves and savants? I hate writing about this, because I felt pushed to the wall.

2.You also talked about being coherent in writing. I think my point is well presented and you know what I mean. I give you facts and your deepest mind knows I tell the truth. The theme is that no hausa/fulani must rule Nigeria until other Nigerians have been able to clean up the mess they dragged the country into because of their greed for oil money.

3. I am not "blind", as you put it, supporting GEJ, it is just that GEJ is working hard and some Nigerians feel that only them should rule. Remember if you ever watch the series of military coups in Nigeria, the usual hausa/fulani deceptive clause is "we took over the government because the previous government is corrupt, inefficient and pose lot of insecurity...bla..bla..bla". Today, I hear this statement again from hausa/fulani's that are trying to get people's vote and ...this sometimes move me to tears. For how long shall Nigerians suffer in the hands of liars who are not after the good of the nation but after Niger Delta wealth? I advised all my friends to beware of any candidate that tells you that he will wipe away corruption from Nigeria, because, certainly he must be a big "oil" thief. I am not from GEJ's place so I'm not being sentimental, GEJ is a humble man. When the South-West opposition misinterpreted his remark, Fashola and others hauled insulting words back at him, he took it in good faith. He even apologized in his facebook page. Do you think a president like OBJ would do that? I respect GEJ because I think God honours him for his humility and simplicity. Remember at the PDP primaries, after all ATIKU's slandering, GEJ still walk to him and shook his hand. I think this is the kind of man we need. This is the kind of man that God can use to change Nigeria, and not radicals!!! When Buhari's militrary regime tried "gra-gra", the corrupt people only shelve their works for some months and the years that follows are the wort in the history of Nigeria. Is that what you want now?

4. My writings is just for the unity of this nation. Know it today that it is quite easy for Niger Delta to trade oil with any country like US for freedom from hausa/fulani colonialism. Remember Kuwait! If we want to stay together, we must learn to respect the "breadwinners" and not looking for a way to cause problems, like the present killings in Jos and the constant insult on GEJ.

Finally, I am not Deri, if we have similar opinion then you should know that some Nigerians stand for issues that must not be neglected if we must stay together as a nation.

I guessed I have cleared your doubts. I am not looking for a score from you.

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my brother what you are saying is true. I was so suprise that the flag was handed over to the blood sucking demon in the person of godswill AKPABIO by GEJ after all the killings he has commited on the good people of akwa ibom state. One thing is sure, whether he has collected the flag or not God will not allowed him succed.

Its so sad!!

Mr President should adopt a more clear strategy to enable him win this race. If the number of people allowed to enter the stadium is controlled this wont have happend which brings my question" what happend to the crowd control?" I belive his campaign cordinators will learn from this because if such stampede continue to occur Mr President will loose the face of Nigerians who trully love him.. May the families who lost their loved once take heart and I pray that such will not happen again.Amen

@Original_Rascal, Do you by ANY CHANCE KNOW one Deri?

@Original_Rascal,RE:Replace GEJ with who?

Do you by ANY CHANCE KNOW one Deri?

The more I read your comments, the more I am convinced that you are either the same and one person or you went to the same English language or is it Sociology class together!

Your views are eerily alike!

Why?
i)Your irrelevant irreverent lashing out at any thing Hausa-Fulani.(How can anyone be so full of hate for another human being?)
ii)Your lack of coherence in your comments and argument.
iii)Your ramblings have no defined theme.
iv)Deri's writings in the past, usually, have no paragraphs and yours follows the same format.
v)Your blind and mindless support of everything with Goodluck attached(mind you, you have every right to support anyone you want)makes me wonder if you are a clone of Deri.

Finally, Deri has suddenly disappeared from this board!

I do wonder.

WHO ARE THESE NOISEMAKERS?

Didn't people die? whats the lie here now? or did the people that died less human to you people? SR didn't lie. GEJ is as clueless as his followers.

shame to you too...you bloody

shame to you too...you bloody tribalist!

People crushed to death in President Jonathans Rally in Port Har

It is a shame that we are still suffering from inefficiency. Why should the organizers of the presidents reception allow 250,000 people in a stadium designed for 100,000 people. What is wrong with the black race and inefficiency. We always have a tendency not to follow the rule or do the right thing. Why can't the president's people ensure that things are done right. This is just a shame and very pathetic. How can he govern right when his team is so inept.

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VOTE BUHARI AND BAKARE?

BUHARI was cursed by the 29 years old Bernad Ogedegbe when he was tied to the stake by the firing squard. he was murdered in cold blood by Buhari despite the pleas by the people. Innocent and the most celebrated governor ever, Prof. Ambrose Ali was sent to jail by Buhari, who accused him of stealing. This is a man that never stole a dine from Bendel. Ambrose Ali went blind in prison because of Buhari who dealth ruthlessly with him. Buhari hated the South-South so much that even when serving his boy, ABACHA, he even neglected the Niger Delta from his PTF projects. BUHARI who overthrew a democratically elected goverment, and cancelled all political parties, and never had agenda for democracy is now is seeking a democratic position. What a shame!!!

BAKARE: Any true Chritian will believe that the Bible is God's word and God cannot lie. If you have ever visited a church, you would know this verse in the Bible.

NUM. 23:19-20 "God is not a man that He should LIE, neither is He a son of man that He should change His mind. Has he spoken, and has it not come to pass?

Bakare said God told him OBJ would die, why did it not come to pass? In 2007, Bakare said God told him that a "root" from Adamawa will save this nation. Though he was refering to ATIKU, yet, what became of him? OK, let's assume God showed him the future, now, why not support RIBADU who is from Adamawa? Today, he is up with "God ask me to contest". I am not saying he is not a pastor, ofcourse, he own his own church, but my friend, God cannot lie!!! Except you are of opinion that God lied to Bakare sometimes. God said in the bible that he did not sent any prophet that tell a lie in His name.

Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying LIES in my name. I HAVE NOT SENT THEM OR APPOINTED THEM OR SPOKEN TO THEM. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.

Can you change the bible just because you worship Bakare instead of God?

Think before you vote because of some religious sentiments. Some people out there only use church as a means to seek political positions. God will NEVER allow any false prophet and persons with ungodly intensions to rule Nigeria.

BUHARI 4 PRESIDENT!!!

ok so first of all, those of you abusing SR, u shld realize that this is a free nation, nobody is forcing you to read their news, if you want to avoid the truth and continue to be deceived by the "luck"(if that is what it is) of GEJ while those of us who arent blinded by sentiments can continue to yearn for the truth... I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THE MAN, I HONESTLY DON'T but GEJ has nothing to offer Nigerians, since he got into office after yar'adua's demise, he hasn't told us a clear plan on what he intends to do during his remaining time in office. He is as confused as it gets on how to run a country.

What Nigeria needs right now is an end to corruption which i believe that buhari will provide!

Contrary to what sahara are

Contrary to what sahara are reporting about poor showing in the north, i am a witness to the crowd he pulled in Kaduna where the campaign for the north west was launched, the town practically stood still for Mr President so i don't know what informed you statement about a poor showing in the North

There is a need for investgation

There is a need for investgation and punishiment

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Many Nigerians were just too young to know the evil Buhari and Idiagbon did to Nigeria. That they and not really IBB were the root of our present predicament. If they did not overthrow Shagari we would not have had IBB and Abacha and we would have advanced in democracy, economic and social development. Buhari is the most indisciplined Nigerian alive today. Forget about the facade called WAI. A soldier who overthrew his democractically elected Commander-in-Chief is an ruly soldier. What surprised me is Pastor Tunde Bakare and I am not really surprised. I never really knew him any pro-democracy activities except as a pastor who preached about politics and social issues on the pulpit until SNG last year. I expect him as a man of our generation he would know Buhari. But if Yinka Odumakin who knew Buhari and Idiagbon and we even suffered under him together and waged war agaisnt him as student activits in Great Ife together now teams up with Buhari and speaks for, it tells you that many pro-democracy activits when they are hungury and poor are mere looking for opportunity to knock and go they go and join evil doers. They are not for the pple based on principle but to gain a platform to eat. Ask Prof Wole Soyinka, he will consistently tell you that Buhari is evil. Soyinka not is a man of our generation, but he was well around when Buhari was fighting Nigerians, especially Southerners Christians while he was protecting the Northerners, even in a very corrupt way. Buhari made laws and used them only agaisnt Nigerians, but broke them to protect emir of Gwadu and Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji and other sacred cows from the north. He jailed law abiding and hard working Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Nduka Irabor, Tunde Thompson etc. He killed Ogedegbe and co and spared the real drug barons in his govt. Only God and the pple in customs know how many emirs and other influential pple brought money into Nigeria when Buhari changed the currency and made pple to die on the queue to change their money. We know his law breaking record. He and Idiagbon took Idiagbon's under age Adekunle Idiagbon to Mecca against the law. As usual of his corruption nobody would have know or pple who know would not have talked becos of his decree NO 4 and ruthlessness if IBB's overthrow of his govt did not throw this up. His decree No 4 was only to cover his corrupt practice. I challenge him to debate on his misgovernance. Mr. Buhari is really desperate to become Nigeria president so he goes to meet pastor Adeboye and other clergys and chose Tunde Bakare as his running mate. IBB failed. Buhari is going to fail. Buhari is a danger to Nigeria. He is deceptively hiding his true self becos many Nigerians are ignorant, but God is not sleeping and He knows the truth. As IBB failed to enslave Nigeria once again, Buhari will fall flatly. Now we know how much Bakare knows and where his prophesies have been coming from. Did he not say an Adamawa prince will save Nigeria? Where is he with Ribadu that Adamawa prince? If his prophesy is true, Ribadu is the closest from the Fulani ruling stock of Adamawa. The others, Atiku and Marwa are not nearly. Nigeria is very interesting and this year is particularly very interesting. I like to serve Nigeria, but I will not be so desperate to serve under anybody or party. What is the point of becoming another Aikhomu, Diya and Akhigbe? That was why Ebitu Ukiwe remains a respected man in Nigeria. THE ONY CHOICE FOR ANY REASONABLE NIGERIAN IS GEJ, AN INNOCENT MAN WITH CLEANS HANDS. NO WONDER HE IS SUCH A CELEBRITY.

REPLACE GEJ WITH WHO?

For those clamouring for vote GEJ out, who do you want to replace him with? Sama Hausa/Fulani's who transformed Nigeria from being a peaceful, wealthy and happy nation to a poor, terrorist, and hopeless nation? Today millions of Nigerians are unemployed because of the Hausa/Fulani's lootings and failure to develop the nation with South-South oil money. Bastards!!! God will kill them all like He killed ABACHA!!!
BUHARI does not know his right from his left, he is just a fanatics. Imagine the man some idiots said will fight corruption, he does not even know a corrupt man. Imagine him in 2008 saying ABACHA was never corrupt and that Abacha was only working for the good of Nigeria. He does not even know that Abacha who joined IBB to overthrow him in 1985 was corrupt. IBB and ABACHA were his best islamic friends, they dine together in one pot and together defame Nigeria. After the cruel acts of ABACHA and the his endless corrupt actions and lootings, BUHARI had the gut to tell Nigerian that ABACHA is not corrupt. BUHARI exonerated IBB that killed Ken Saro Wiwa,Pa Rewane and MKO Abiola, yet this old general is singing ABACHA'S praise. During PTF, only North and West that Buhari concentrated his greedy attention while the South which generates the money he was spending, he neglected. Imagine the man that some idiots "coconut brains" think will fight corruption. Maybe he will fight South-South corrupt men and praise his corrupt brothers. I pity foolish "follow follow" political slaves that are here making cheap campaigns for IBB and ABACHA master. Please help him organize one rally too.

RIBADU: Wrong Choice!!! Absolutely a mistake, only used by OBJ. No record of ever fighting against his corrupt bosses before then. Although, he dare not have tried, because he wouldn't have seen the light of the next day. When he stepped on "the big" toes, he was exiled. Thank God, GEJ granted him amnesty like a typical militant. Now he had the gut to point a finger at GEJ his saviour.

Kudos! Sahara Reporters,

Kudos! Sahara Reporters, Please do not relent in your reports and investigative journalism. There was news recently about organized bloggers paid heavily by the Jonathan's henchmen to discredit anything SR says about the dumb presidency of Jonathan, make no mistakes, these guys are not Jonathan Sympathizers, they have been paid for it.. since SR are the only Online News media bold enough to report Jonathan's atrocities. These paid bloggers are doing a good job, using different names and pseudonyms to do their work. they have even flooded forums like www.nairaland.com and others. I beg you sahara Reporters, dont relent, please..

sahara at it again

THAT PEOPLE DIED IS TRUE BUT MUST YOU NEGATIVELY LABEL GEJ?WHO GAVE MONEY THROUGH WHICH CONTRACTOR?SR WHO IS UR PAYMASTER?

why all this obnoxious act...

I never have any trust in Nigeria government they are all thieves GEJ used 50 billion for Independence day alone alone where many people are on the street looking for how to survive. I pity our youth and elders who fail in cheaply just because what to put in their mouth. see the incident that happen in portharcourt an eye witness told me that more than thirty people died and many injured,which means another sacrifice has been done another ritual has been performed, well, all these are really painful. His only God that can help Nigeria as a whole...

the SR report is very

the SR report is very correct, Al-jazeera network news reported same this morning with a clear video coverage of the dead and ambulance taking the dead and wounded away, so insulting SR is a waste of energy,

people believe that money

people believe that money will be shared during presidential political rallies, thats why you see a very large turn out in rallies. The situation is quite unfortunate, no good planning for rallies of that magnitude, the planners will be highly interested in whats goes into their pockets. This tragedy is as a result of high level fraud if properly investigated. The stadium is very centrally located that if proper panning was carried out there could be nothing like stampede
This country requires proper cleaning.
May the soul of the departed rest in perfect peace.

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SR is the worst newsREPORTER

SR is the worst newsREPORTER of our time. I have noticed over the years that once they hate you, u are finished. They (SR) will do anythin possible to bring u down. Change for the better

Blood Bath At J onathan's rally

IF Mr.President could have these unprecedented impressive outings in the other regions,one only wonders why the difference in porthacourt. For sure no one needed inducement in enugu for that marmot crowd.NIGERIANS simply love GEJ

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