The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has alleged the bribery of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) by Niger Delta Development
Coommission (NDDC) to rig the
forthcoming general elections in favour of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reports ITRealms.
APC in a statement made available to ITRealms issued
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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