Amaechi Wants Rivers State Election Canceled

In an exclusive interview with SaharaTV, Rivers
State Governor Rotimi Amaechi says that he
believes that today’s presidential elections
held in River State were irreparably
compromised, and the results must be
cancelled.
Amaechi, all All Progressives Congress (APC)
leader, alleges that interference on the party of
the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), has adversely influenced the result of
the contest. Claiming the PDP is working with
officials and security agents to rig the contest
by withholding result sheets, Amaechi says
the results of the election today in Rivers
cannot be trusted.
“The police [are] arresting everyone that is
arrestable, the police carrying ballot boxes,
they are also aiding PDP supporters,” Amaechi
said.
He added all the election equipment and
materials, especially result sheets, are in PDP
agent hands. "I couldn’t vote. In the country,
we’re doing very well. In Rivers State, we
discovered that all the SPOs (supervising
presiding officers) have stolen all the result
sheets and disappeared. So we said that there
will be no election until we see the result
sheets."
Amaechi claims he was accompanied by
members of the press, for purposes of
documenting the developments there. "I went
with cameramen. I went with Channels, AIT
and NTA. They did not see anywhere that we
went to that you could identify that there were
result sheets."
Expressing his disappointment with INEC’s
management of the electoral process in Rivers
State, Amaechi also listed the names of
officials he claims are working for the PDP,
and how their affiliations ultimately jeopardize
the contest. "Don’t forget that the INEC
commissioner here was employed by the
president,” he said. “So as far as she’s
concerned, she says that there was an election
and that all the result sheets are in the field."
The two-term governor stated that voters in
Rivers State should be calm, and not resort to
violence. His statement comes as reports of
violence grow, according to conversations with
representatives from the CLEEN Foundation.
At the time of this report, yet another death
was reported at a ward in Ogale, Eleme local
government area in Rivers State. This joins a
string of violent and criminal incidences that
have characterized election day in the state.
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