The All Progressives Congress has said that while it is disappointed with INEC’s decision to run supplementary elections in six states, it is confident the party will be victorious when the elections get underway.
The APC alleged that until INEC took its decision regarding Rivers, the incumbent and candidate of the PDP was trailing in the race.Below is a full statement by the APC regarding supplementary elections in six states and the halting of proceedings in Rivers.“INEC’s Supplementary Elections, Illegal Decisions on Rivers, Bauchi States: Our Stand!
Undeterred, the PDP executed its rigging plot through its agents across the country by unleashing violence, vote-buying and hijacking election materials to rig and falsify elections results. The result was violent disruption in many polling areas and over-voting which led to many cancelled votes and ultimately the supplementary elections and suspended exercise in some states.
In Logo, security reports indicated that the ballot papers were massively thumb-printed the night before the election day, while a brazen case of under-age voting supervised by state government compromised security personnel, was prevalent on the actual day of voting. The desperation of the PDP governorship candidate, Governor Nyesom Wike to remain in office even if it means destroying the State and killing its people, is throwing the State into turmoil and crisis.
We are dismayed that some sponsored stakeholders including those who witnessed the killing of over 40 persons on the 2015 governorship election day alone due to someone’s quest to become governor by all means, appear to be hoodwinked by the very same character to believe that security agents especially the Army should have stayed away to allow a repetition of what happened in 2015.
We report that in most of the LGAs in the State, voting had concluded, results declared at the polling units and collation had begun before the abrupt suspension of the process. INEC does not have the power under our Electoral Act to suspend elections that has already been concluded. We suspect that INEC might be working to surreptitiously bring in cooked up results credited to Obio/Akpor LGA to skew the election in favour of Wike. We vehemently reject this anti-democratic move.
They should know how much many Nigerians despise the name OfficialAPCNg and save themselves from further damage by doing anything untoward during these elections.
What is the business of OfficialAPCNg in Rivers State election? Do they even have a gubernatorial candidate there?