But I voted in Rivers State.
The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, is calling on
INEC to conduct the elections in Rivers State, saying that after all
that he witnessed on Saturday, there was no election at all in the
state.
Speaking to Channels Television’s election coverage programme,
Nigeria 2015, in the early hours of Sunday, Amaechi alleged that there
was a deliberate plan to truncate the process in the state.
“I realized that in all polling units in my ward, all the result
sheets had been hijacked and I sought to know why (and) the presiding
officers reported that the EOs, that is the Electoral Officers had taken
all the result sheets from them.
“Then I began to receive calls from all over the state that they took
all the result sheets. I then called the Electoral Commissioner in
charge of Rivers State who hails from Bayelsa and shared the same office
with the President when the President was working with OMPADEC.
“All she was saying was that as far as she was concerned there were
result sheets and I said look ‘There are reports all over the state can
you please verify that?’ She refused to say anything further and
switched off her phone,” he said.
Governor Amaechi said that up till 5pm he was still at the polling unit asking for the result sheets.
He expressed confidence that the international observers’ reports
would validate his claims as they also confirmed that they had been to
about five Local Government Areas and there were no result sheets.
Reaction to the possibility of election results being announced eventually, Amaechi said, “We will not accept that.”
“You’ll announce an election that never took place?”
He wondered how INEC would come about the results when many of the
presiding officers did not return with the card-readers as directed by INEC.
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