Nigeria, April 28 -- A Saturday rally in Bayelsa State to drum up support for President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, was held successfully despite gunmen's attempt to disrupt it.

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State earlier banned the rally, saying he did not want the political crisis in the neighbouring Rivers State to extend to Bayelsa.

Two Bayelsa-based journalists who covered the rally told PREMIUM TIMES that gunmen emerged from the nearby bushes and fired gunshots at the event venue, the Church of God Mission Camp Ground, Igbogene.

"The rally wasn't disrupted completely, just for a few minutes. They (the organisers and the participants) later regrouped," one of the journalists, who does not want his name m...