Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress of planning to present forged election report to the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja.
In a statement, the state chairman of the party, Mr. Felix Obuah alleged that APC was collaborating with a syndicate of corrupt personnel in the election monitoring unit of Independent National Electoral Commission in the state.
Obuah said some INEC members working with APC have created “a fake election report covering the local government areas in Rivers State to the effect that there was no election in the state during 2015 elections.”
He revealed that APC’s plan “is to apply for a supeona to be issued on the said corrupt officers who will appear at the Tribunal to tender the fake reports and give evidence as facts coming from INEC.
“This report made five months after the election is in clear contradiction with the report of a three man INEC monitoring team set up by Professor Attahiru Jega, then INEC Chairman to supervise the governorship election in the state, based on the petition of APC.
“The report is also contrary to the INEC reports released immediately after the elections from various local governments and the report of other election monitors as well as the life broadcast of several television stations which clearly showed Rivers people voting at the elections including the APC governorship candidate, Hon. Dakuku Peterside and his wife and the former Governor of Rivers State Rotimi Amaechi and his wife.
“We wish to draw the attention of these very dubious public officers of the criminal consequences of their act to whom criminal charges will be pressed against at the appropriate time. We use this medium to once more draw the attention of the public to this unscionable and criminal act of the APC in Rivers State as we call for immediate arrest of the named persons and investigation of the matter.”
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