The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has said it is ready to take the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Nigeria Police to the State Election Petitions Tribunal for alleged connivance to rig the 2015 governorship elections in the state.
State Chairman of APC, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya said this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Friday.
Ikanya said the mandate which the people of Rivers freely gave to the party and its governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, would soon be reclaimed for the good of the future of the state.
“This brazen electoral theft by Chief Nyesom Wike and his PDP gangsters cannot be allowed to stand. These power-drunk anti-democratic elements, in their desperation for power, were not discreet in their electoral fraud that saw the allocation of a bogus over a million votes to Chief Wike. The documents and video tapes so far assembled will surely see many Rivers INEC and PDP chieftains being thrown into jail at the end of the day.” He said
Ikanya said the APC has an iron-cast case against Wike and PDP, and it is not surprised that Wike, who cannot win up to 30 per cent of the votes in a free and fair election in the state, is now desperately running from pillar to post in a bid to prevent APC from going to the Tribunal.
He said “With this development, Chief Wike will now join the league of Sir Celestine Omehia who spent only four months as Governor of Rivers State before he was sacked by the Supreme Court in 2007. This is a case which we shall pursue to a logical conclusion not only to retrieve our stolen mandate but to ensure that the plot of sharing Rivers State Federal Allocation among the ten main key actors of PDP in the State does not materialize.”
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