The presidential and National Assembly elections have
turned out to be a big nightmare for the APC in Rivers
State, with its members being killed, attacked and
disenfranchised in various parts of the State.
“Armed militias working for the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) have intensified their killing of APC members. Scores
have already been killed and several others marked for
elimination. This morning in Kpite Town, Tai Ward 2 and
other areas of the State, five people were shot dead by
PDP’s armed militia, and that was before accreditation
commenced,”
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said in a
statement in Port Harcourt. Pictures of our killed members
are attached.
Lamenting his party’s ordeal, Ikanya said: “It is sad that
PDP and its collaborators are targeting APC strongholds
and chieftains for attacks and killings. To intimidate our
people and contrary to the court ruling forbidding the use of
the Army in this election, there has been a massive
deployment of soldiers in the State with clear instruction to
shoot at sight any APC agent that refuses to comply with
the evil plot of PDP to write the results of the election at
some designated areas of the State in favour of PDP.”
Chief Ikanya gave the following specific horrifying
examples of APC’s travails:
•Hon. Chidiebere Okwuwolu, former Commissioner and
currently an APC leader, was arrested by police and taken
to Olu Obasanjo Police Station in Port Harcourt along with
99 other arrested APC members scattered in various Police
Stations in the State.
•At Ubima, the home town of Governor Chibuike Amaechi,
the INEC results sheets are currently with Chief Nyesome
Wike, the guber candidate of PDP in Rivers State. Governor
Amaechi has refused to embark upon any accreditation
because of lack of result sheets in all the polling units in the
State, a situation contrived by INEC and PDP to make room
for PDP to rig the election.
•At Andoni, the Local Government Area of Rivers State APC
Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and Chief Uche
Secondus, the National Vice Chairman of PDP and his
cousin, Engr Tele Ikuru (the Deputy Governor of Rivers
State who few days defected to PDP) hell has been let
loose; electoral materials have been hijacked by PDP
agents in connivance with the Army that has been
threatening to arrest and kill any APC chieftains in sight.
•The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Andoni Local
Government area, Esuku Esuku, has been ordered out of
Ngo, headquarters of Local Government, by the Joint Task
Force (JTF)/army personnel deployed to Ngo, or be killed.
•At Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local
Government, materials are being distributed from the house
of Minister of Sports, Chief Tammy Danagogo, instead of
the INEC office, without any security personnel. Danagogo
has held the policemen that ought to escort these materials
to the polling units hostage and injuring DPO of Abonnema,
Mr. Joseph Kayode for daring to accompany Hon Isobo
Jack the Commissioner for Urban Development to the
Polling Unit, relevant pictures attached.
•PDP thugs hijacked materials and INEC personnel meant
for Akuku-Toru Wards 15, 16 and 17. The hijacked
materials and men were taken to Freetown, a hinterland
coastal community. The attack was led by two youths
whose identities are known.
•In Tombia, in same Akuku-Toru Local Government, PDP
had by Friday night filled the community with Ijaw Youth
Council (IYC) bouncers who were attacking APC members
and, at the same time, preventing those returning home to
vote from entering the town. They were doing so in the
presence of soldiers who were too few in number. The
Caretaker Committer Chairman and others were injured on
Friday. The over 30 APC members that were to act as
agents were arrested.
•In Buguma, which is the Headquarters of Asari-Toru Local
government, policemen were busy all day arresting APC
chieftains.
•In Gokana Local Government, trained INEC ad-hoc
personnel were replaced with untrained manpower
suspected to be PDP members. This is believed to have
been done in connivance with the LGA Electoral Officer
(EO).
•At Opobo/Nkoro, the Local Government Area of Dr.
Dakuku Adol Peterside, the gubernatorial candidate of APC,
the house of Opobo/Nkoro Caretaker Committee Chairman,
Loveday Jaja, was torched after he escaped to avoid being
killed by the PDP hoodlums. Electoral materials meant for
the Local Government Area have been diverted to John
Africa/Ada Tom Pepple Compound area where they are
thumb-printing in favour of PDP. One Barrister J.B Pepple
was caught with stained thumbs and he admitted to thumb-
printing. Another person Alafagha Oko-Jaja had his head
broken head and he is seriously bleeding. No one is sure if
he will survive.
The army has been going around the community harassing
people while Chiefs in Kalaibiama are compelling them to
vote for President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP. This is said
to be on the orders of Chief of Army Staff, Major-General
Kenneth Minimah, who is also from the town.
Mr. Harold Peterside a PDP Agent in Unit 006 Ward, Oopbo/
Nkoro was caught with INEC Register and fake Results
Sheet at the Polling Unit.
•At Oyigbo LGA, 40,000 incident forms were being given
out at 6:30 a.m. but they stopped when the APC Agent
complained about it. He was however asked to leave the
INEC office at about 11:30 a.m. Already, 120,000 incident
forms have been to Port Harcourt LGA, 80,000 to Obio/
Akpor and 50,000 to Ikwerre LGA. The incident forms are
one of the ways PDP plans to use to rig the elections
around the country, especially in the South South and South
East.
•In Okrika, there was sudden change and appearance of
fresh and inadequately trained INEC ad-hoc staff who tried
to persuade voters to undergo manual accreditation,
claiming that card readers assigned to Okrika LGA polling
booths were not working (even without trying them). In a
few units where APC supporters insisted on ‘No Card, No
Accreditation’, the card readers mysteriously began to
work. But in majority of the places manual accreditation is
being undertaken.
Also in Okrika, there is insufficient delivery of electoral
materials by INEC. Up till now no one, not even party
agents, has seen the original result collation sheets. The
INEC officials claim it is not everything that they must
explain. Meanwhile, INEC delivered incident forms far
excess of the number of registered voters.
Meanwhile, PDP stalwarts are openly parading bundles of
PVC cards in their possession. Rowland Sekibo,
accompanied by police and PDP thugs armed with guns,
are going around chasing away APC members from doing
accreditation. They had done so in wards 1, 7, 8, 9 and 2.
They tore the tags of our agents, beat them and chased
them away, injuring scores of them.
“We condemn this brazen rape of democracy by PDP in
collaboration with INEC and the security agents. It is
unacceptable as this is not what democracy should be.
PDP should allow Rivers people to vote without guns
pointed at their throats,” Dr. Ikanya said in the statement.
Dr Ikanya passed a vote of no confidence on the State
Resident Electoral Commissioner, Gesila Khan, declaring
that she has failed woefully as she is bent on carrying out
her secret agreement with PDP to return victory to the
party at all cost. Whatever trash she will announce as the
result of today’s election is not acceptable to us and we
ask for her immediate transfer and a new date be set for a
proper election in Rivers State than the sham and charade
that was calculated to rubbish INEC and democracy.
The pictures of our killed members are attached.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the
State Chairman, APC Rivers State. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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