Supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have reportedly clashed in Portharcourt on Monday.
NPO learnt that some members of the PDP had earlier protested in front of the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission along Aba Road in Port Harcourt.
The protesters demanded a joint inspection of election materials by all political parties.
The APC, led by its governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, had last Friday said it would storm the INEC office on Monday to demand the release of Certified True Copies of documents used for the March 18 governorship election to enable the party file processes at the election petition tribunal.
It was gathered that while the PDP protests festered, Cole in company of the state APC Chairman, Emeka Beke, and other party leaders showed up at the GRA area of Aba Road and was proceeding to the INEC office when the protesters sited him.
The protesting youths raced in his direction, pelted stones and water sachets at him.
The security operatives attached to Cole immediately shielded him and whisked him into the vehicle, but the protesters continued pelting sachet water in his direction.
Anti-riot policemen, soldiers and the NSCDC officers are in a show of force to avert further unrest.
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