Rivers NUJ Election Ends In Chaos As Police Seal (VIDEO)

It was a show of shame, on Thursday, in Port Harcourt as the 7th triennial congress of Rivers State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led to disagreement among the contestants which ended in chaos.

It took armed police squads to clear journalists away from their state headquarters when disagreement among candidates in the elections blocked any attempt to conduct elections.

The convention went smoothly but everybody knew something would go wrong, due to rumours and threats in the days going to the convention.



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A new date, however, is yet to be fixed for the exercise which is expected to produce new executives of the NUJ in Rivers state.

The exercise, which was expected to hold yesterday, was postponed after a controversy broke out during the 7th Triennial Delegate Conference in Port Harcourt.



It took the intervention of the Rivers state commissioner of police, Friday Eboka to quell the controversy which led to the decision to shift the exercise to a new date.