March 10, 2019
Press Statement
Loading ...The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns the treasonable confiscation
of the Rivers state governorship election results by soldiers and
demands the immediate release to avert serious crisis in the state.
The PDP completely revile this subversive act by soldiers, who seized
and diverted the results to an army barrack in Port Harcourt and calls
on all lovers of democracy, to unite against this brazen attack on our
democracy by the Buhari Presidency and All Progressives Congress (APC).
Such barefaced assault is only akin to a coup d’état and should not be
allowed to stand
Nigerians watched in bewilderment as soldiers, in the company of APC
thugs invaded polling units in Rivers state, unleashed violence on
voters, disrupted polling processes and hauled away electoral materials,
just because the APC is not in the ballot, following its self-inflicted
exclusion from the election.
The use of soldiers to ambush the electoral process and confiscate
results is an extreme scheme by the APC and the Buhari Presidency to
enmesh the Rivers state governorship election in controversy, seeing
that there is no way they can take away victory from the PDP.
Soldiers, allegedly under the directive of the Director-General of the
Buhari Campaign Organization and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi, invaded INEC offices, waylaid INEC officials and
forcefully took away collated results to the army barracks, where APC
agents have been stationed to alter figures and destroy evidences of
PDP’s victory.
We want Nigerians to note that the APC is frustrated that it is not in
the ballot in the Rivers state election and for that, it has resorted to
violence, killings and heavy militarization of the area, in the attempt
to disrupt the electoral process, seeing that the PDP had already won.
What the APC and its compromised soldiers fail to note is that the PDP
already has valid documents of all the results as delivered from all the
polling units where elections held across the state and that the figures
are with all the stakeholders.
Therefore, deploying soldiers to confiscate the results will not change
the victory already recorded by our party in Rivers state.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
