Remove Rivers REC, APC tells INEC chair
(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter, has demanded the immediate redeployment of Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak, for colluding with Governor Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rig the December 10 rerun legislative elections in the state in favour of PDP.
The demand was contained in a statement on Monday in Port
Harcourt by Rivers APC Chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya.
APC said, “With the revelation of the unholy partnership
between Wike and Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC,
to deny a large chunk of the Rivers State electorate a voice during the rerun
election, we hereby demand for the immediate redeployment of this enemy of
democracy.
“Mr. Ikoiwak had the audacity to announce PDP’s George
Sekibo as a Senator without adding votes from three LGAs of Etche, Emohua and Ikwerre LGAs which would have made
APC’s Andrew Uchendu the winner. Based on this, we wish to ask Sekibo,
Osinakachukwu Ideozu and their likes in PDP not to celebrate their fake
victories as we will not allow killers of our people to lead us but will use
every constitutional means at our disposal to retrieve the mandate given to our
candidates by the voters.”
“With this latest revelation we have been vindicated that
Wike is the most bloodthirsty governor in Nigeria who if not checked will
surely derail our democracy. Who knows how many Rivers State people that Wike
and his PDP hoodlums would have killed in order for the sake of electoral
victory if not for the Police and other security agencies?
“Having watched the outbursts of Chief Wike before, during
and after the December 10 rerun election, we have come to the conclusion that
Wike is nothing but a comical tyrant and blackmailer who needs to be reined in
before he derail our hard-won nascent democracy. Gov. Wike has not ceased to
accuse the Army, DSS, Police, INEC and APC leadership of collaborating to cause
havoc during the rerun election while in actual fact he is the brain
perpetuating all the killings, ballot snatching of INEC sensitive materials and
fake announcements of induced INEC results.
“If we may ask as we are accused of working with the Police
to force INEC to rig the rerun election, how come a Police Officer, DSP
Mohammed Alkali was brutally beheaded with his aide at the usual spot where PDP
hoodlums kill other security agents at Omoku? How come PDP candidates are
declared as winners in most of the results so far declared by INEC?
“Today, under the watch of Wike, Rivers State has
degenerated into a miasma, where lives have become solitary, nasty, brutish and
short and the sanctity of the human lives is not paid the attention it ought to
get under the purposeless PDP-led government.
‘We wish to counsel those organisations collecting money
from Wike in order to give him award for a non existing achievement but should
rather give him award as the most brutal and bloodied Governor in Nigeria for
turning Rivers State into Rivers of blood as that will be better understood by
the International Community than celebrating a fellow that has brought nothing
but shame to Rivers State and her people.
“On the Police probe panel on the 70 incidents reported by
the INEC, we wish to reiterate that Wike must and we insist that he must submit
himself to the Police probe panel to assist the Police unearth and end the
killings in Rivers State since he assumed office. Wike has the habit of setting
up some funny Probe Panels in the past and should not be afraid to submit
himself to a probe that will assist to restore the sanctity of live in our dear
State unless he is indirectly accepting the fact that he has a hand in most of
the political killings in our dear State.
“Rivers APC commended the unusual courage displayed by the
Ogonis who did not only vote overwhelmingly for the party’s candidates but also
stoutly defended their votes.
“Not minding the tyranny of Wike, the Ogonis have proved
that they are truly soldiers of democracy by ensuring that their son Magnus Abe
was duly elected Senator, thereby shaming Wike and his army of undemocratic
elements and appreciating the Ogoni clean-up initiative of President Muhammdu
Buhari,” the statement said.
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