The All Progressives Congress, Bayelsa State chapter, has rejected the declared results of the last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
The party alleged on Monday that the results were filled with widespread irregularities.
According to the APC, the elections were heavily compromised and characterised by intimidation of voters and arrests of APC members and agents in most parts of the state.
The APC, in a statement by its chairman, Chief Tiwei Oruminighe, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of colluding with the Peoples Democratic Party to massively rig the elections.
He said, “There are armed and security forces collusion with PDP to compromise the electoral process; late arrival of electoral materials, and deliberate refusal to use the card readers.”
“In almost all the eight local government councils, with the possible exception of Ogbia, electoral materials arrived at the earliest 3:00 pm on voting day.
“When the officials and materials arrived, they abandoned the card readers, even where there was no proof that they were bad. The INEC officials claimed to have received the following SMS from their headquarters: ‘My dear EOs, Pls you have been enjoined to use Manual Register for accreditation of voters. Be wise!’ Once this message was circulated, it set the stage for PDP to manipulate the process with the collusion of INEC and the security agents.
“Specifically, our party agents were intimidated and voters scared away by gunshots fired by the armed security forces. In Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Hon. Tariprebo Moses Aketi, APC candidate for KOLGA Constituency 1, and his campaign manager, Imomoemi Odiowei, were arrested.
“In Nembe Local Government Area, Mini and Ikensi Wards, security agents using two new gunboats chased out APC agents, seized all the electoral materials and took them elsewhere.”
The party chairman claimed that in the same local government, results of four units in Oluasiri Ward 13 were hijacked by men in police uniform.
He alleged that in Southern Ijaw LG Ward 17, electoral materials were taken to the houses of PDP leaders and collated after agents of other political parties were chased away by security agents.
via nigerianeye
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