BREAKING NEWS: Police, Soldiers Stop Tinubu, Buhari, Others at INEC Office

7apc-inecSoldiers, 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.

apc-inec6An 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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12 COMMENTS

  1. What a country. If they win an Election,Jega should remain,if they loss,Jega should resign.when are we as a people come to accept we must not win all the time and at all cost..are we as a people reading a script that for now is hard to interprete….Are they the Leaders we have been searching for?.I weep for this country.

  2. This is madness, immature party APC full of tout( Agberos) they should go and sleep. There is no place for them here in Nigeria. Children as they are cannot rule our Nation. They are not fit.
    Kudos to Nigeria security

  3. I think this protest should not b about APC loosing and protesting and wining and not protesting or about the people who are at the for front of the protest. The truth is that the election was mared with irregularities and the INEC boss attested to that. Also that the people figthing this injustice are the old men of this country who have but few year to leave. Where are our youths? the so called leaders of tomorrow. I want to state categorically that one of the major reforms Nigeria need today is to allow the people to choose who will govern them. Once that is done, u know that we are headed for a glorious feature

  4. I weep for Nigeria. I am Nigerian with my constitutional right to belong to any association(s)but honestly what we have presently is aa aggregation of dangerous cabals who are bent on sucking the country dry. I a country where politics is practised with honour, Jega should have honourably resigned to keep his name and hard earned integrity. Unfortunately he is himself a willing apostle of impunity and administrative recklessness. I am seriously praying for a return to Regioonalism come 2015 when Nigeria finally brake up. I weep for Nigeria.

  5. APC ur days are numbered in south west, the LG election in Ogun, Lagos, Edo etc… are worst than anambra election, If APC won Inec is good if not Jega must resign, Rubish people. Take note Labour party is going to take over from APC in south west come 2015.

  6. If any body should protest it certainly shouldn’t Tinubu( Agbero) who claim to have Lagos on his palm. As the God I serve lives this Boko leaders will never rule this country. PDP is still far better than these crop of embeciles who are bent to take over power by any means

  7. Mr. goddie, if tinubu is an agbero den we need more of an agbero in d Nigerian politics. frankly speaking, do u support an election dt has been proved to be flawed immensely by an inec official? it is time we shy away from sentiments and face realities to move Nigeria forward.

  8. Why the protest in the first place? I hate this level of impunity that is been chaired by these said Progressives with destructive actions. Where are they taking us to with such negative ideology vested on the masses to disintegrate this Nation. We have to rise up and fight such fellows away from our political scene before it gets late.

  9. Honestly, I do not disagree wit d request dt d election be re-conducted but the sacking of d chairman is wat I do not see to be necessary and this is simply bcos if dat man shld be removed, it may be difficult to find another suitable and honest one who will err and still come out to accept it like him as those in office are jst too tribalistic to be trusted. The next thng we’ll see is one of their ‘boys’ being appointed which will only make things worse. Hence, my advice to APC is not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I thnk they shld only request for a rerun to correct the mistake.