Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come out to declare that what took place in the State on March 19 was not the expected rerun State and National Assembly elections but the mere allocation of votes to the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to avoid being killed by Governor Nyesom Wike and his gang of killers.
The party in a statement signed by its state chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, outrightly rejected the results so far announced by INEC, saying that, nothing but the total cancellation of the process and the holding of fresh rerun polls would be acceptable to it.
“We wish to put on record our total and uncompromising rejection of the results of the March 19, 2016 rerun elections so far announced by INEC as these do not in any way reflect the current political realities on ground in Rivers State. These results, which indicate a mysterious landslide victory for PDP, were allocated to the ruling party in the State following unrelenting threats by Governor Nyesom Wike to the effect that anybody coming to conduct any election that would not favour PDP should first write their wills before coming to the State. The effect of these threats and their practical demonstration as seen in how people were burnt, beheaded and buried alive during the rerun elections can clearly be seen in the shameful manner INEC is awarding victory to PDP,” Rivers APC said.
The party in the statement issued on Sunday in Port Harcourt said there was nothing different between what happened on March 19, 2016 and during the widely discredited elections of March 28 and April 11, 2015 cancelled by the courts, which also ordered the rerun elections. It said this was not a coincidence considering that the apparatus used for both elections were basically the same.
“From the Police leadership to most of the INEC officials and INEC ad-hoc staff, the characters that organised the 2015 general elections were the same characters that organised the March 19, 2016 rerun elections and it will be foolhardy to expect any different result. All these characters were set up by the former disgraced PDP administration rejected by Nigerians during the 2015 polls” Rivers APC said.
It berated Governor Wike for claiming that APC is not in a position to win an election in the State, and for accusing Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, of sponsoring violence to remain politically relevant.
“Everyone knows that Wike is the one who has been sponsoring violence in Rivers State and not Amaechi,” the party said, adding: “If Amaechi did not employ violence as Governor of Rivers State to stop Wike from succeeding him in 2015, is it now that he is far away in Abuja as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that he would do so? Rather than the vain attempt to drag his name into the mud, Amaechi should be commended for not encouraging APC members to retaliate the wanton killing of its members by PDP, which would have turned Rivers State into another Somalia.
“If Wike feels that he is very popular let him allow free and fair election devoid of his gang of killers and he will see how he is hated in Rivers State. Time will tell the heroic role played by Amaechi in this dispensation. As we watch the macabre dance in Rivers State we expect the APC Government at the centre not to allow PDP to decimate our ranks any further in view of the strategic roles we played in freeing Nigeria from the inept PDP administration that would have completely grounded the country if it was reelected.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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This man with the toga of apc chairman in rivers state has no shame. In civilized countries, he would have resigned as the results of the last elections, show that he is a nobody and his party is not trusted by the people. How can he open his filthy mouth to reject this election just because the People have rejected him and his boko party ? We live in a very backward society where shamelessness is a virtue. Apc used the army, DSS,SSS,navy, cultists, police and civil defense and even inec and still te will of the people overcame them and instead of hiding their heads in shame, they are still shameless enough to talk in the public . If I were the president, I will conclude that Amaechi and co are nonentities in their domain and drop them.
ReplyDeleteYou spoke my mind if election is conducted 200 times PDP will still win. Amechi shld just rest and allow Wike to work for Rivers pple so that Wike will not use him as excuse for failure.
DeleteApc bad losers as always. Useless party! Clueless incompetent people.
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ReplyDeleteAPC is just causing chaos in the country, they are the only party who will refuse defeat, if Good Luck Jonathan can leave seat of power in other not to share the least common man blood how come that APC now derive pleasure for peace not to reign in some States, i'm tired and sick of this so called wahala change
ReplyDeleteAPC please leave rivers state alone...haba,na by force???no more elections abeg,we are tired of elections...you people are bad loosers,and it's so disgusting...
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