Police to investigate APC campaign rally stampede in Port Harcourt

News Agency Of Nigeria 00:00 - 14 February 2019

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the party's presidential rally in Ogun State [Twitter/@AkinwunmiAmbode]

Police in Rivers said it would investigate the stampede at Adokiye Amesiemeka Stadium, Port Harcourt, during All Progressives Congress (APC) rally on Tuesday.

Making this known in Port Harcourt, Spokesman of the command, Mr Nnamdi Omoni, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that four people died in the stampede.

As a command, we will investigate the cause of the stampede. We are hearing different versions as to the cause of the incident.

At the end of our investigation, we will write our report and any person or group of persons responsible for it will be sanctioned, he said.

NAN recalls that no fewer than 11 persons were reported at the same Adokiye Amesiemeka Stadium in 2015, during a People Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally.

On Saturdays Presidential and National Assembly elections, Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said 15,000 personnel out of the 16,000 in the command would be deployed to the 23 local government areas of the state elections.