The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
alerted the public on efforts being made by President Goodluck Jonathan
to use a top official of the NDDC and the Resident Electoral
Commissioner (REC) in the state to rig the forthcoming general elections
in the State.
The party in a statement issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt alleged
that NDDC Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Dr. Henry
Ogiri, has been directed by President Jonathan to work closely with
Rivers REC, Mrs. Gesila Khan, to ensure that Jonathan wins on March 28
while Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Chief
Nyesome Wike, wins on April 11.
“Acting according to the script, Dr Ogiri has purchased a brand new
Prado Jeep for Mrs. Gesila Khan and the Jeep is currently parked at the
village of Mrs. Khan in Ogbia, Bayelsa State. In addition, Dr Ogiri has
set aside a whopping sum of $100 million to be deposited into the
account of Mrs. Khan before the week runs off,”
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya said.
According to Ikanya in the statement, “To perfect the plans of winning
Rivers State at all costs, Mrs. Khan, who is from President Jonathan’s
village and his very close relation, was deliberately posted to Rivers
recently to ensure that PDP wins the State despite having been
overwhelmingly rejected by our people. For INEC to post President
Jonathan’s kinswoman to supervise the elections in Rivers State, which
he has personally confessed neglecting deliberately in his six years in
office, simply betrays the Presidency’s desperation to rig the elections
as PDP can never win any free and fair polls in Rivers State.”
Ikanya said that the strategy of compromising INEC to pave the way for
the use of the allegedly missing 14,000 PVCs and PDP’s cloned cards was
coming after PDP failed to wear down Rivers APC through the killing and
detaining of several of its members.
“We will like the security organs to investigate this woman and retrieve
this car and expose Dr Ogiri for what he is. This is a man who has
failed to pay NDDC staff for months and has also failed to pay
contractors for services rendered to the commission, while funds are
reserved for use in rigging the 2015 elections for PDP,” Ikanya said.
He also appealed to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, “who means well
for this country with all his innovative ideas designed to stop rigging
in our electoral system, to closely monitor the activities of the Rivers
REC before she rubbishes all that the electoral umpire has perfected to
conduct a free and fair election in the country.”
Rivers APC urged President Jonathan and Chief Wike to play the game
according to the rules and stop overheating the polity by adopting
untoward ploys through their desperation to “capture” Rivers at all
cost. “PDP has pocketed the Police in the State who are ready to do her
bidding by arresting the APC leaders indiscriminately. To attempt to buy
over the INEC simply demonstrates that Rivers State will be in total
mess if Chief Wike succeeds in his bid to capture Rivers instead of
allowing the people of Rivers State to elect their Governor and leaders
in the March 28th and April 11 gubernatorial election,” APC said.
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