APC RIVERS PROTEST UPDATE: APC Rivers State Protesters In Abuja, Demand Removal Of Rivers REC, Dame Khan (PHOTOS)

A crowd of APC members / protesters at INEC office. (Photo: Boma Peters)

All Progressives Congress (APC) has stood by its accusation they levelled against Dame Gesila Khan, the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, of colluding with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to unleash violence on its supporters as well as to rig the‎ elections, GRAPHITTI NEWS reports.

A crowd of protesters from APC Rivers State chapter therefore besieged the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to demand the immediate removal of Dame Khan, the State Resident Electoral Commissioner.

Carrying placards, the protesters also called for an end to the crisis in the state.

“We don’t want her again,”‎ one of the protesters said. “She must go. We want an end to the problem in Rivers State.”

The presence of security agents forestalled breakdown of order‎.

More APC protesters (Photo: Boma Peters)

Shettima Ngiladar, director of security at INEC‎, spoke to the livid protesters, assuring them that the commission would look into their demands.

“The protesters from Rivers State have written a letter to the commission asking for the removal the state’s electoral commissioner,” he said.

“We have received the letter and the commission will look at it based on its merit, and whether it is valid or not – because there are such petitions of this nature that people will just cook up things.”