A combined workforce of security operatives has arrested some members of the African Alliance Congress who arrived at the headquarters of the Unbiased National Electoral Commission to protest the commission’s alleged interference and the imposition of the expelled member, Leonard Ezenwa, on the party.
SaharaReporters learnt that armed security operatives together with the police, operatives of the Division of State Services and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps had been stationed on the entrance of the constructing to frustrate the protesters.
Five of the protesters were thereafter rounded up and arrested upon their arrival. They have been whisked away into a building of the commission.
It was additionally learnt that some members of the party on a bus have been harassed and sent away by the gun-wielding security operatives.
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Members of the party had two weeks in the past given the electoral body till March 15 to stop meddling within the affairs of the party.
They had asked the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to return the party to the original owners.
The former Presidential candidate of the party, Omoyele Sowore, who had led members of the party to the commission, had condemned Mahmood’s motion for fostering Ezenwa on the party as Chairman with a view to destabilising and creating confusion within the party.
He had stated the social gathering would mobilise and direct all its members on the expiration of the ultimatum to occupy and shut down all of the offices of the commission throughout the nation.
He faulted the partisan role performed by the commission by giving illegal recognition to Ezenwa.
