Members of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC and the Goodluck
Jonathan Campaign Organisation went on rampage in Lagos on Monday as they took
to major roads in support of the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The OPC members, who gathered at the 7UP/Toll Gate end of
the expressway, led other protesters, who were chanting anti-Jega songs, giving
reasons why the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof.
Attahiru Jega, should be sacked before the March 28 elections.
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The OPC members, who carried guns, cutlasses, pocket knifes
among other weapons, occupying one end of the busy highway while some members
of the groups harassed some motorists and passers-by plying the road.
While some people, who were clad in black vest, said to be
beneficiaries of the SURE-P, also constituted a sizable portion of the
protesters, the campaign posters and billboards of the opposition, All Progressives
Congress on Ikorodu road were destroyed as motorists who were also having the
APC emblems on them were also not spared.
Heavy traffic built up along the highway as the protesters,
who were well protected by heavy police presence, took over one part of the
road, grounding movement of other road users.
The protesters took time to distribute leaflets containing
seven reasons why the INEC boss should be sacked.
The leaflet also contained what the OPC described as the
achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan and why the President should be
re-elected.
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of
Biafra on Friday protested in Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, among other locations in
the South-East, calling for the immediate removal of Jega.
On Sunday, the All Progressives Congress alleged that it had
uncovered a plot by its Peoples Democratic Party counterpart to fund ethnic
militias to protest and demand Jega’s sacking.
The protesters are said to be on their way to the National Stadium, Surulere, through the Ikorodu Road, where they will hold a rally.
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