The crisis trailing the conduct of the 2015 general elections in Rivers State took another turn yesterday, when security attached to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, tear-gassing the candidates of the All Progressives Party, APC, in the elections who had besieged the commission to register their displeasure over what they termed the refusal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Mrs. Gesila Khan to release the documents used for the polls.
The politicians led by the Rivers State APC governorship candidate, Mr Dakuku Peterside and Senator Magnus Abe got more than they expected for when the police after failing to stop them from getting close to the main gate of the Commission, quickly locked the gate and immediately threw the tear-gas which left everybody within the vicinity chocking and coughing, ceaselessly.
Meanwhile, INEC’s Director of Security, Shetima Ngelare explained to the gathering that there was no prior knowledge that the APC candidates from Rivers State were coming to the commission, but he received a petition submitted by the party to the commission’s Chairman.
Senator Abe told the securitymen that they were at the commission to register their displeasure to the acting INEC Chairman, Mrs. Amina Zakari over the alleged refusal of the Rivers State REC Khan, to give them documents used in the conduct of the polls won by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/police-tear-gas-peterside-abe-others-at-inec-headquarters.
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