Labour Party opposes the Rivers findings and requests their cancellation
The leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has requested that all of the manipulated and unreliable results from the presidential and National Assembly polls in some of Rivers state be thrown out.
The party asked INEC to void the election results from, among other places, Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro.
The statement reads: “The leadership of the Labour Party is shocked by the revelations emanating from Rivers state after the presidential and national assembly elections which held on Saturday; where thugs believed to be agents of the state government invaded various polling units and collation centres, took away election materials including the results sheets, manipulated the BVAS machines and uploaded fake results in to the Central portal
“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. Governor Nyesom Wike, faced with stark reality of defeat even in the polling units in his compound in Worji, where LP scored 323 votes against APC and PDP’s 5 and 2 votes respectively, he used the soldiers and police to intimidate, harassed and snatched ballot papers.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, promised Nigerians going into this election that the deployment of BVAS was the ideal countermeasure to electoral malpractices in Nigeria, but if allowed to stand, what happened across Nigeria is purely a betrayal of the faith that millions of Nigerians had placed in INEC.
The INEC staff was coerced into complying with their demands by these thugs in concert with the military personnel and police officers who had been sent to guard them, and they were compelled to manipulate the BVAS out of fear for the repercussions of their refusal. Some of these changes took place well into the wee hours of the morning. We insist that INEC look into these atrocities committed by the political class against Nigerian voters.
“We are requesting that INEC step up to the plate and annul 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 among others,” the statement continued.
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