Rivers East: Wike alerts Int’t community of INEC/Police rigging technique

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Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike presenting a souvenir to the Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Lehmann during the High Commissioner's visit to Government House Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

(Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom  Wike has alerted the international  community  of the latest rigging system hatched  by the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC, wherein they use the Police to concoct electoral results in collusion with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The governor  told the international community that the actions of the Police, APC and INEC, portend  grave danger to the nation's democracy .
Speaking  at the Government House Port Harcourt on Tuesday  when he granted audience to Mr Paul Lehmann,  the High Commissioner of Australia to Nigeria, Governor Wike informed the international community that the administration  will not allow the rigging of future elections through the new scheme adopted by Police, INEC and the APC.
It will be recalled  that Senator George Thompson Sekibo was removed as the duly elected Senator representing Rivers East Senatorial District on the premise of results certified and tendered by the Police at  the Election Tribunal.
"We are happy that we have been vindicated.  INEC printed their own result sheets with their serial numbers.  These other people went and printed result sheets with the same  serial numbers. The issue is how did they know  the serial numbers?
"When the election took place , INEC declared PDP as winner. INEC  now colluded with the Police and  police now came to the tribunal and tendered the concocted  results they printed," Governor Wike said.
The governor said that the Election Tribunal attached probative value on the  documents  tendered by the Police, as against that of INEC, even when INEC  has the  constitutional responsibility to conduct elections  and declare results.
He said: "Having  known this, are we going to fold our arms and allow same thing to happen again now that we have discovered that this is their new strategy. That they  will collude with the  police to write  results and they  will go the tribunal to tender such results. We  will resist."
Governor Wike  urged Australian investors to take advantage  of the  the state's agricultural potentials  as his administration  has created  the right  business  climate.
He said: "Aside from oil and gas, Rivers State has several other potentials. We want  investors       to invest  in the area of agriculture.  We will give tax holidays  for investors  to  come to the state."
Earlier, the Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Lehmann said his  visit is a mission in economic  diplomacy.
He said that the Australian Government would want to develop  a beneficial  relationship  with the Rivers State Government.




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