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Gunshots As APC, PDP Clash In Port Harcourt Over Inspection Of Electoral Materials

Some PDP stopped the APC Governorship Candidate in the March 18 poll, Tonye Cole from accessing INEC office.

Gunshots were heard on Monday when of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State clashed in Port Harcourt, the state capital over the inspection of electoral materials.

Trouble started when the APC Governorship Candidate in the March 18 poll, Tonye Cole and of his party arrived the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital to inspection of materials used in the last election in the state.

However, Cole was forced to turn back by of PDP who were already on ground at the INEC office before his arrival.

The situation caused pandemonium as the PDP demanded the t inspection of election results and the Certified True Copies of result sheets for the just-concluded 2023 general elections.

The PDP protesters had blocked both the waterlines and GRA areas of Aba road, the two major access points to the INEC head office. No car was able to drive through that stretch of Aba road from the ground lanes, while those on the GRA flyover are trapped because there is no exit route.

The PDP protest was led by the Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie who was re-elected in the March 18 election and Samuel Nwanosike, the Chairman of the Ikwerre Local Government Area.

Though the party won the governorship and State Assembly elections, the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly who tly led the protest, demanded that INEC grant the party a t inspection of the materials used in conducting the March 18 elections.

The protesters believed that their demand would introduce the level of transparency needed to forestall unnecessary litigations and arguments.

Apart from the demand for t inspection of materials, some inscriptions on the placards displayed during the protest also request INEC to make available the Certified True Copies of results.

https://www.channelstv.com/2023/04/03/gunshots-as-apc-pdp--clash-in-port-harcourt-over-inspection-of-electoral-materials/

Video from Channels TV correspondent at the scene.

https://twitter.com/channelstv/status/1642862904591482887


Nigeria Info Port Harcourt video of the chaos.

https://twitter.com/NigeriaInfoPH/status/1642845802774110208

One injured as PDP, APC ers clash in Rivers

3rd April 2023
By Dennis Naku

One person sustained a gunshot injury after being hit by a stray bullet when ers of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress clashed in Port Harcourt on Monday.

Earlier, some of the PDP protested in front of the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission along Aba Road in Port Harcourt.

The protesters demanded a t inspection of election materials by all political parties.

The APC, led by its governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, had last Friday said it would storm the INEC office on Monday to demand the release of Certified True Copies of documents used for the March 18 governorship election to enable the party file processes at the election petition tribunal.

Our reporter who was at the scene reports that while the PDP protests festered, Cole in company of the state APC Chairman, Emeka Beke, and other party leaders showed up at the GRA area of Aba Road and was proceeding to the INEC office when the protesters sited him.

The protesting youths raced in his direction, pelted stones and water sachets at him.

The security operatives attached to Cole immediately shielded him and whisked him into the vehicle, but the protesters continued pelting sachet water in his direction.

Within minutes, soldiers of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, operatives of the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps arrived and shot into the air to disperse the protesters.

However, an eyewitness told our correspondent that one of the security men attached to Cole fired the shot which hit one of the protesters who was advancing towards him.

The man bled profusely on the floor due to a gunshot that injured his leg before friends carried and took him to the hospital.

Sensing that the PDP ers were more, Cole’s security whisked him away from the scene, while the APC ers there scampered for safety.

As of the time of filing this report, the GRA Junction near the INEC office in Port Harcourt is the centre of the battle.

However anti-riot policemen, soldiers and the NSCDC officers are in a show of force to avert further unrest.

https://punchng.com/breaking-one-injured-as-pdp-apc-ers-clash-in-rivers/






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNwswvqxOk

Wike needs to be arrested....

Rivers state and violence

Odimma

Why na?!

Naija youths, do not kill yourself for any politicians.

All we wanna say is that : They don't really care .


Use your head.

Our honest advice.


These politicians are struggling and they’ve lived their lives struggling for the national cake which they will distribute amongst themselves.
It is, therefore, in the interest of ordinary Nigerians to know that they have to vote to stay alive.

ers of candidates all over the country need to be a bit more restrained and wise.
We ordinary people must figure out how to manage our ion when it comes to politics.

Don’t take seriously the grandstanding of the politicians.
All the things you see about them abusing themselves or quarrelling, you will think they will never shake hands.
They are very good friends, and many of them drink from the same pool.
So, don’t go and kill yourself for nothing.


We Rise!

Tinubu should call his boys to order.

Is it worth it

Rivers State should be at thesame level like Lagos but they have series of bad Governors who turn the state to Thuggery

Their business.
Killing for politician is the most foolish thing 9n earth

Ghen ghennnnn!

Very true, ABA Road today was a mess.
INEC official denied both parties the chance of inspecting the materials.

Make Tonye cole calm down for Wike o

LP trashed both APC and PDP on Feb 25
I wonder why they are not aggressively contesting the elections, could it be that they have been bought over?

Too bad.

Wike will regret all his actions. All the barking he does whenever he is in the press will all be over on the 29th of may and then the real music will start.
He rigged for the apc during the presidential and now he rigged for pdp during the primaries. this criminal activities of his will be found out and be made public and he will be dealt with.
The voice of the people is the voice of gob and you cannot go against the voice of god

Everything about APC is violence and bloodshed

They left out labour party. Just imagine the selfishness

This country is messed up

It is called Post Election Gunshot and it is constitutional & is allowed to happen after every unsatisfactory election

Nothing concerns me again with Nigeria politics again i blame the useless youths being used for all this shit at the end they will abandon them ..


As for Chelsea g Julian naeglismann will be another potter pro max .. go for Luis Enrique or pochetino

APC

naptu2:


https://www.channelstv.com/2023/04/03/gunshots-as-apc-pdp--clash-in-port-harcourt-over-inspection-of-electoral-materials/

Structure of criminality.

Wike is a menace to the civilized society.
But in all this I blame PMB coz his eneptitude caused all these

Eye Neck is a disgrace. This is the worst Election since the creation of Nigeria.

Katakata everywhere after the fraud call election being selected by Eye Neck


It’s a shame

Since this election started it has claimed more lives and done more harm than any good any Nigerian government has ever did.


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