Police, Soldiers Stop Tinubu, Buhari, Others from Protesting at INEC Office Today (SEE PHOTOS)
Soldiers,
riot policemen and other security agencies confronted the leaders of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) during their march to the
headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in
Abuja on November 28, 2013, Thursday.
After
a strategic meeting in the APC’s new secretariat in Wuse 2, the Federal
Capital Territory, which lasted about three hours, the party leaders
took to the streets and embarked on a procession to INEC’s office in
Maitama District.
The
protesters however met a stiff resistance from stern-looking security
operatives comprising the police, soldiers, SSS and Nigerian Security
and Civil Defence Corps.
An
armoured personnel carrier, marked NPF 6359 C, measuring about 40-feet
long, was used to barricade the entrance to the commission’s office,
while the driver of the truck and police officers were pelted with
sachets of water by the APC youths.
In
their separate speeches, the APC national Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande;
National Leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu; former chairman of ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; and ex-Head of
State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.), called for the sacking of
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, with immediate effect for his
handling of the Anambra State governorship poll and the recent Delta
State Senatorial by-election.
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