Irate youths suspected to be supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom state yesterday took the streets to protest the governorship election results.
According to the results already announced, the People’s Democratic Party candidate, Mr Udom Gabriel Emmanuel recorded a landslide victory in 28 out of 31 local governments already released by the state collation Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor James Ekpoke.
The PDP candidate won in all the local government with the exception of Urue Offong/ Uruko where APC led with 3,792 votes as against PDP which polled a total of 2,777 out of a total of 7,128 votes cast.
Meanwhile, protesters numbering about 5, 000 have blocked the entrance of INEC headquarters in Uyo chanting war songs and displaying placards with various inscriptions such as ‘Stop killing our people in the name of elections’ etc.
Smokes are seen oozing from their gatherings on Oron road close to the Udo Udoma Avenue, while policemen have barred them from approaching the INEC office, where they are alleged to have concluded plans to burn down the INEC office.
Our correspondent reports that though there were no loss of lives, the youths had planned to invade the INEC office but were repelled by a combined team of the military, police and SSS.