The police in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Monday, rolled out not less than 17 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) and emptied about 10 tear gas canisters on the All Progressives Congress (APC) women on protest against the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections of last Saturday in Rivers State. The women, numbering over 100, marched on Aba Road to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) office to present their grievances to the resident electoral commissioner (REC) in Rivers State, Gesila Khan, when they were intercepted by anti-riot policemen.
Wearing black attires they carried placards with various inscriptions which read ‘Rigging is back in Rivers State’; ‘We want free elections’; ‘REC Khan must go’; ‘PDP police leave us alone’, among others. Speaking to journalists on Aba Road while the protest was going on, the commissioner for women affairs in the state, Joeba West, called on the chairman of the INEC, Attahiru Jega, to out rightly cancel the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted in the state. She also called for the removal of the resident electoral commissioner, alleging that she compromised to rig APC out during the elections.
