The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) is about to conclude arrangements to storm the State Election
Tribunal to reclaim its mandate which was stolen by the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in connivance with the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) and the Police during the governorship polls of April 11. Rivers APC
Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, disclosed this in a statement issued Friday
morning in Port Harcourt. He reassured the people of Rivers State that the
mandate which they freely gave to the party and to its governorship candidate,
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, would soon be retrieved for the good of the future of the
State.
“This brazen electoral theft by Chief Nyesome Wike and
his PDP gangsters cannot be allowed to stand. These power-drunk anti-democratic
elements, in their desperation for power, were not discreet in their electoral
fraud that saw the allocation of a bogus over a million votes to Chief Wike.
The documents and video tapes so far assembled will surely see many Rivers INEC
and PDP chieftains being thrown into jail at the end of the day,” Ikanya said.
Rivers APC declared that it has an iron-cast case
against Wike and PDP, saying that it is not surprised that Wike, who cannot win
up to 30 per cent of the votes in a free and fair election in Rivers State, is
now desperately running from pillar to post in a bid to prevent APC from going
to the Tribunal.
“We wish to appeal to our members and the entire
people of Rivers State to remain calm and resolute as the party goes to the
Tribunal to retrieve their stolen mandate. Our case is as clear as daylight, as
even Prof. Wole Soyinka, Ambassador John Endwistle of the United States of
America, the European Union Electoral Observers and other international bodies
have since testified that the elections purportedly conducted in Rivers State
were a sham,” Ikanaya stated.
He said that Wike's fate had become sealed by the
failure to burn the INEC Office in Port Harcourt and with it the evidence of
his bare-faced electoral fraud. “With this development, Chief Wike will now
join the league of Sir Celestine Omehia who spent only four months as Governor
of Rivers State before he was sacked by the Supreme Court in 2007. This is a
case which we shall pursue to a logical conclusion not only to retrieve our
stolen mandate but to ensure that the plot of sharing Rivers State Federal
Allocation among the ten main key actors of PDP in the State does not
materialise,” Dr. Ikanya further stated.
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