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

Scores of Nigerians lost their lives at the stadium in Port Harcourt where  President Goodluck Jonathan had a campaign rally on Saturday.

Police sources at the Liberation Stadium venue of the rally confirmed to News Desk Naija that no fewer than 12 persons have died as a result of stampede caused police shootings at the venue

Eyewitness accounts also stated that the figure confirmed by Police authorities is an ‘understatement’ calculated to avoid embarrassing the President at home.

Policemen attached to the president shot sporadically into the air and caused  the stampede that also left some 50 people injured.

The Identity of the dead and injured could not be immediately ascertained as the injured 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 with less than 100,000 capacity for the flag off of Jonathan/Sambo rally in the South-South region.

Present at the rally are the Governors of Rivers, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States all of who were 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 convoy was also engaged in a ghosty auto accident that left two people dead on Aba road.

 Our reporters  noted that contractors to the federal government were distributing money to youths in the area to attend Jonathan'd rally in Port Harcourt after Jonathan's unimpressive outing the Northern parts of the country where he had been received with hostility.