The Inspector-General of Police,
Muhammed Adamu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and National Commissioners of INEC have been
teargassed in Kogi State.
The IGP and other dignitaries
were on Tuesday teargassed by policemen who were trying to put down an uproar
at the stakeholders’ meeting/signing of peace accord among political parties
and candidates, organised by INEC, according to the Nation.
The stakeholders’ meeting/signing
of peace accord among political parties and candidates, organised by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with senior police officers
and loads of their well-armed men on standby, was almost disrupted when those
suspected to be thugs used force to prevent the governorship candidate of the
Social Democratic Party (SDP), Natasha Akpoti, from entering the venue of the
event.
It was a rowdy situation for
close to twenty minutes at the main entrance of the event’s venue, where the
two groups (those who wanted to bring the candidate in and those trying to
prevent her entrance) struggled to gain control of the entrance.
However, as neither of the two
groups yielded ground and would not listen to entreaties from security agents,
policemen on duty fired a couple of teargas cans to disperse the contending
groups, at the door. The effect of the teargas spread into the event’s hall,
affecting all occupants, including the IGP, who was seen covering his nose.
However, while the fight was on
and the whole place was in commotion, INEC continued with the business of
conducting the peace accord signing, to which 17 political parties, including
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition parties, led
by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
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