By Friday Olokor, Abuja
Soldiers, riot policemen and other security
agencies on Thursday confronted the leaders
of the All Progressives Congress during their
march to the headquarters of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
in Abuja to protest against the November 16
Anambra state governorship election.
After a strategic meeting in the APC’s new
secretariat in Wuse 2 in the Federal Capital
Territory, which lasted about three hours, the
party leaders took to the streets and
embarked on a procession to INEC’s office in
Maitama District.
The protesters however met a stiff resistance
from stern-looking security operatives
comprising the Police, soldiers, SSS and
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
An Armoured Personnel Carrier, marked
NPF 6359 C, measuring about 40-feet long,
was used to barricade the entrance to the
commission’s office, while the driver of the
truck and police officers were pelted with
sachets of water by the APC youths.
In their separate speeches, the APC national
Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; National
Leader of the party and former governor of
Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former
chairman of ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; and
ex-Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari(retd.), called for the sacking of INEC
Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, with
immediate effect for his handling of the
Anambra State governorship poll and the
recent Delta State Senatorial by-election.
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