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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday evening demanded the Independent National Electoral Commission release outstanding results in the Rivers West and East senatorial districts, claiming the candidates of his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have won in the two areas.
In the third senatorial district, Rivers South East, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Magnus Abe, already clinched victory, leaving the other two open.
But Mr. Wike said the results from the Rivers East and West showed the PDP had won in the two senatorial districts; thus, he asked INEC to announce the remaining results ‘untampered with’ and declare his party’s candidates winners.
For Rivers East, results of six local governments, LGAs, have been collated with PDP winning all, while outcomes of the remaining two LGAs – Ikwerre and Emohua – are being awaited.
But Mr. Wike said he believed there is a plot to inflate results of the two LGAs to overturn his party’s lead.
“The result of Rivers East has been held down by the plots of INEC , the Army and the Police to manipulate the results of Emohua and Ikwerre Local Government Areas for the purpose of concocting the senatorial results in favour of the APC .
“As I speak with you, they are doing everything possible to rewrite the result of Emohua Local Government Area to ensure that the APC wins,” he said.
“Release Rivers East Senatorial District where Senator George Sekibo has won clearly . Release Rivers West Senatorial District where Senator Osinakachukwu Ideozu has won clearly . INEC should release Andoni/ Opobo-Nkoro Federal Constituency where Abiante has won and Andoni State Constituency where Ikunyi Ibani has won clearly.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Wike also hit back at senior lawyer and President Muhammadu Buhari’s adviser on anti-graft campaign, Itse Sagay, who accused the governor of being responsible for the shortcomings that characterised the Rivers rerun.
Speaking in an interview with the Independent, Mr. Sagay had said, “Definitely, INEC is doing very well now. The case of Rivers State is not the fault of INEC in any way because we have totally determined and desperate politicians, led by the state governor, Nyesom Wike.
“These ones are determined that there will be no free and fair elections in Rivers state.”
But in his reaction, through the state’s Commissioner for Information, Austin Tam-George, the governor described Mr. Sagay “as a false intellectual with a broken moral compass and beneficiary of the current dictatorship of the All Progressives Congress-led government.”
“Prof. Sagay is an irresponsible defender of the APC’s regime of impunity. He is a happy beneficiary of the current dictatorship. No one in Nigeria takes Sagay with a pint of seriousness. He is one of the pseudo-intellectuals seduced by the honey of power,” he said.
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