APC plans to use military to rig rerun election – Rivers govt

The Rivers State government has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of planning to use the military to rig the forthcoming rerun in the state.

It also condemned the allegation by the party that Governor Nyesom Wike was behind recent killings in Rivers State.
The state government described the allegation as a ploy to flood the state with soldiers for the purpose of hijacking ballot boxes in the March 19 rerun elections.

It would be recalled that the acting National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr Segun Oni, had alleged that governor Nyesom Wike was behind recent pockets of violence in the state.

Replying the APC, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr Austin Tam-George, in a statement he issued on Thursday in Port Harcourt, accused the APC of taking propaganda to a ridiculous height by saying every dead person in the state is a member of the APC.

Read also: Wike responsible for political killings in Rivers – APC

“The attempt by the APC to appropriate every dead person in Rivers State as their member might mean that the APC is in fact the sponsor of these satanic cult clashes, all in an attempt to destabilize the Wike administration,” the commissioner said.

” The APC’s reckless and false allegations were part of a plan to incite the military and other security forces against the people of Rivers State. It is a crude plan to militarize the state and use the security forces to steal the results of the forthcoming re-run election’, the commissioner said

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