One person sustained a gunshot injury after being hit by a
stray bullet when supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All
Progressives Congress clashed in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Earlier, some members 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 joint 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 supporters were more, Cole’s security
whisked him away from the scene, while the APC supporters 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.
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