DENNIS NAKU writes on the violence that erupted recently between the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party protesters in Port Harcourt over issues of inspection of election materials and, the attack on APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, during the protest
The 2023 general elections may have come and gone, but the fallout and leftovers arising from the activities of the two main political parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, have continued to unsettle the political space and keep residents and people in the state in anxious suspense.
Visibly distraught, Cole, who spoke to newsmen at the INEC office, said, “Give us what we need so that we can go to court. Let us go to the tribunal and present a case. But if you release documents to us a day before the tribunal, what do we do? Cole, while reacting to the arrest, described it as a “rude awakening,” saying, “More worrisome is that all our evidence was taken away. Now, can we trust that evidence when we get it back?”
Cole, while condemning the arrest, said no amount of intimidation would deter him from reclaiming his “stolen mandate” insisting that he won the March 18 governorship poll, a process he posited was “hijacked and results changed.” Led by the Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, and the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Dr Samuel Nwanosike, the placard-carrying protesting PDP supporters blocked the entrance of the INEC office, insisting that the electoral umpire must allow for a joint inspection of CTC documents and results sheets used for the election.
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