Politics

Labour Party to INEC: Cancel elections result in Rivers

The Labour Party (LP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel elections in Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro areas of Rivers State.

The LP alleged that thugs invaded various polling units and collation centres and took away election materials, including the result sheets during the presidential and National Assembly elections in the Rivers State on Saturday.

The party further alleged that the thugs manipulated the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and uploaded fake results into the commission’s portal.

This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure.

“We took particular note of incidences in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, Rumukoro and several other areas where Labour Party was clearly leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins.

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“Nigerians went into this election based on the assurances by 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 of millions of Nigerians by INEC,” Abure stated.

He alleged that INEC officials were intimidated by the thugs in connivance with military personnel and police officers who were deployed to protect them into doing their bidding and were forced to manipulate the BVAS.

The LP chairman also alleged that some of the manipulations occurred 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,” Abure said.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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