The Labour Party (LP) on Sunday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel “unverified and manipulated results” arising from Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in parts of Rivers State.
In response to Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in some of Rivers State, the Labour Party (LP) on Sunday requested that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cancel the “unverified and manipulated results.”
In a statement, the party’s national chairman Julius Abure claimed that elections had been rigged in several Rivers communities, including Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro.
Moreover, he claimed that political thugs broke into various polling places and collation facilities, stole election supplies, including the results sheets, and “manipulated the BVAS machines and uploaded fake results into 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 leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins,” he stated.
Abure alleged that at the polling units in Governor Nyesom Wike’s compound in Worji, the LP scored 323 votes against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which polled 5 and 2 votes respectively.
However, the LP chairman asserted that security personnel were accustomed to stealing ballots.
“Nigerians went into this election based on the assurances by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that the deployment of BVAS was a perfect antidote to electoral malpractices in Nigeria, but what transpired across Nigeria, if allowed to stand is purely a betrayal of trust by millions of Nigerians on INEC.”
“Some of these manipulations happened way late in the night. We demand that INEC investigate these atrocities against Nigerian voters by the political class.
“We are therefore asking that INEC should rise to the occasion and cancel 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 amongst others.”
