In response to Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in some part of Rivers State, the Labour Party (LP) on Sunday requested that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) annul the “unverified and manipulated results.”
Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, claimed in a statement that political thugs broke into different polling places and results-collection centres, stole election materials, including the results sheets, and “manipulated the BVAS machines and uploaded fake results into the Central portal.”
In addition, he asserted that polls were rigged in a number of Rivers communities, including Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro.
At the voting center in Governor Nyesom Wike’s compound in Worji, according to Abure, the LP received 323 votes, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) only received 5 and 2 votes, respectively. Abure also claimed that security agents were used to snatch ballots.
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“We took particular note of incidences in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, Rumukoro and several other areas where Labour Party was clearly leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins,” he stated.
“Nigerians went into this election based on the assurances by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that the deployment of BVAS was a perfect antidote to electoral malpractices in Nigeria, but what transpired across Nigeria, if allowed to stand is purely a betrayal of trust by millions of Nigerians on INEC.”
“Some of these manipulations happened way into late in the night. We demand that INEC investigate these atrocities against Nigerian voters by the political class.
“We are therefore asking that INEC should rise to the occasion and cancel all the unverified and manipulated results arising from the presidential and national assembly elections in parts of Rivers state particularly in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo and Rumukoro amongst others.”
