Following a clash between members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Port Harcourt, at least one individual was shot.
Before the fight broke out, some PDP members stormed the INEC office in a show of support for their demand that all political parties jointly examine election materials.
While the PDP demonstration went on, Tonye Cole, the APC’s governorship candidate, was reportedly seen travelling in the opposite direction to the INEC office with the State APC Chairman, Emeka Beke, and other party officials.
They were reportedly attacked with stones and water sachets by enraged protesting teenagers who saw them.
Cole’s security operatives were said to have immediately whisked him away from the scene as the protest continued.
Soldiers of the 6 Division, Nigeria’ Army, operatives of the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) rushed to the scene and shot into the air to disperse the protesters.
But it was gathered that one of the security men attached to Cole reportedly fired the stray bullet that hit one of the protesters, who later bled profusely and was carried to the hospital by sympathisers.
The anti-riot policemen, soldiers and NSCDC personnel were later seen performing a show of force with their patrol vans to forestall further attacks.
