… insist electoral commission must obey Court of Appeal
ruling to relist party, candidates
Thousands of protesting members of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Rivers State, from 8 a.m. today, blocked the main entrance
of Rivers headquarters of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on Aba Road in Port Harcourt, insisting that the
electoral commission must obey the ruling of Court of Appeal, Port
Harcourt and relist the main opposition party in the state (APC)
and its candidates.
The aggrieved protesters, who were armed with placards bearing
various inscriptions and chanting: “No APC, no elections in Rivers
State,” were led by the party’s candidate for Rivers Southeast
Senatorial District, Oji Ngofa, who is Nigeria’s Ambassador to The
Netherlands.
INEC’s Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Edwin Enabor,
addressed the protesters and he informed them that the Resident
Electoral Commission (REC) in Rivers, Mr. Obo Effanga, had not got
to the office.
Ngofa, however, insisted that he and other APC members would not
leave, until their protest letter was personally handed over to the
REC of INEC in Rivers, for onward transmission to the National
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
The protesters were still in front of INEC office, with the gate
still blocked, as at press time.