Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike,
has said the plans of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) of plotting to rig the senate and state assembly rerun elections
in the state will fail.
According to a report by
TheCable, the Governor reportedly said those planning to rig the coming
elections in the state will fall inside water.
He
further said the election, which are tentatively scheduled for October
2016, will hold without the interference of any 'form of rigging by INEC
or its cohorts.'
Speaking at an event in Bille/Bonny/Nembe Waterfront in Port Harcourt, Wike said: “The
plan of INEC and its cohorts to transplant the Edo state rigging model
in Rivers state will fail, the people of the state will resist them,” he
said.
“Anyone planning to steal our
mandate will be resisted, nobody can intimidate us, those having such
plan will rig themselves into the water,” the Governor said.
Continuing,
Wike said: “They are already celebrating and plotting to repeat what
they did in Edo; anybody suffering from malaria can say anything but
nobody will use the police to rig here.
“If you
want to take our mandate by force, you will go by force, our people must
remain vigilant because INEC may want to take us unawares,” the
governor stressed.
Governor Wike has been
championing the cause of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State
insinuating that the ruling party, APC, is trying all its best to rig
elections in the state.
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