Tight security, as Jonathan campaigns in Port Harcourt Stadium

There was water-tight security yesterday, at the controversial Adokiye Amiesia­maka Stadium, Port Har­court, Rivers State, venue of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign rally.

Security men were seen at strategic positions while members of Peoples Demo­cratic party (PDP) and sup­porters, who attended the ral­ly were totally frisked by the security so as to ensure that no one entered the venue with dangerous weapons.
The party members and supporters including women, who had hand bags, had hectic time with the secu­rity men, as they disallowed them from entering the sta­dium with their bags.
Vehicles of the Anti-bomb disposal unit of the Nigerian Police were deployed to ev­ery point inside the stadium.
There were also legions of security men drawn from the army, police, State Se­curity Service, para-military agencies, patrolling in and around the stadium.
Daily Sun gathered that the heavy presence of secu­rity men at the venue of the rally, was the consequence of the refusal of the state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to grant PDP the permission to use the sta­dium, and the latter’s insis­tence in using the facility for the rally.