Cole, others injured as APC, PDP supporters clash in Port Harcourt

Cole, others injured as APC, PDP supporters clash in Port Harcourt

Many people were injured on Monday when supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) clashed in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

One of those injured were the APC governorship candidate in the March 18th governorship election, Tonye Cole, who sustained an injury in his neck. Some members of the PDP had earlier protested in front of the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Aba Road in Port Harcourt.

The protesters had demanded a joint inspection of election materials by all political parties.

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The APC last Friday said they would storm the INEC office on Monday to demand release of certified true copies of documents used for the March 18 governorship election to enable the party to file processes at the election petition tribunal.

It was learnt that while the PDP protest was holding, Cole in company with the state APC Chairman, Emeka Beke, and other party leaders came.

The APC team was moving to the INEC office when the protesting youths raced towards his direction, pelting them with stones and sachets of water.

Security operatives attached to Cole immediately shielded him and whisked him into the vehicle, but the protesters continued hauling objects at his direction.

Soldiers of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, operatives of the Nigeria Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps arrived at the spot thereafter and shot into the air to disperse the protesters.

Cole, others injured as APC, PDP supporters clash in Port Harcourt