 There were gone shots when members of the all-progressive Congress APC and the People's Democratic Party in River State clashed in Port Harcourt, the state capital, over the inspection of electoral materials. Trouble started when the APC governorship candidate in March 18, Paul Toyekou, and members of his party arrived at the office of the independent National Electoral Commission INEC and the state capital to inspect materials used in the last election in the state. However, Kour was forced to turn back by members of the PDP who were already on ground at the INEC office before his arrival. The situation caused pandemonium as the PDP members demanded the joint inspection of election results and the certified true copies of results sheets for the just concluded 2023 general elections. The PDP protestors had blocked both the water lines and railway areas of Abbey Road, the two major access points to the INEC head office. No car was able to drive through that stretch of Abbey Road from the ground lanes while those on the highway fly over a trapped because there is no exit route. The PDP protest was led by the deputy speaker of the River State House of Assembly, Edison Ahir, who was re-elected in the March 18 election and Samuel Wanochike, a chairman of the Ikwere local government area.