ABC's Muhammad Lila ( @MuhammadLila) ventured north today to Faryab Province with presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. Previously the country's foreign minister, Dr. Abdullah has been leading some polls in recent weeks and could be Afghanistan's next president. Voters head to the polls on Saturday and for Dr. Abdullah, this is crunch time on the campaign trail.

Today's crowd was rowdy, the energy was high:

Shot of massive crowd at Dr Abdullah rally today in Faryab, northern Afghanistan. Many come from far away villages pic.twitter.com/YiiTd02Zy0

- Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) April 2, 2014

Crowd control like you've never seen - a trench was built to separate the masses:

Supporters dig a trench to separate raucus crowd from main platform at @AfgPresident rally (1/2). pic.twitter.com/dsYYfCy93H

- Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) April 2, 2014

But that didn't work out all that well:

Sufficed to say, trench didn't quite work out as planned (2/2) #AfghanElections2014 pic.twitter.com/nKKUYTVMy4

- Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) April 2, 2014