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Peoples Democratic Governors uncovers fresh plot by the All Progressives Congress to allegedly rig Southern Ijaw rerun guber polls
PEOPLES Democratic Governors Forum has raised alarm about a fresh plot by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig the rerun guber elections in Southern Ijaw in Bayelsa State.
Earl Osaro Onaiwu, coordinator of Peoples Democratic Governors Forum, who raised the alarm in a statement issued on Friday, December 11, in Yenagoa alleged Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers State and minister of transport, and Mohammed Dan Ali, minister of defence, met in Abuja to strategise on how to rig the rerun election in Southern Ijaw LGA, which will decide who is the winner of the election that was held on December 5.
Onaiwu alleged that Amaechi and Dan Ali had met in Abuja within the week to perfect ways to rig the poll in favour of Timipre Sylva, All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, who trails behind incumbent Governor Seriake Dickson in results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
According to him, the APC remains desperate in its bid to capture the oil-rich state, which he said fits into suggestion by Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State who it was claimed said that all oil-producing states should be taken over by the ruling APC in the interest of national security.
The statement reads: “It is on good authority that the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has held two meetings with Mohammed Dan Ali, Minister of Defence, on how the military can once again be used to intimidate voters and rig the Bayelsa poll for the APC in Southern Ijaw local government in the rerun election for the Bayelsa governorship.
“It would be recalled that the PDP Governors Forum had raised alarm before the inconclusive poll that there were plans by the APC to camouflage as the military to abuse the process in their desperation to capture oil-producing states under the PDP.
“Today we have been vindicated by several reports of independent observers and the bold move by the INEC to reject Southern Ijaw local government poll.
“From what we know, the threat to use the military to perpetrate heist of the mandate of the electorate of Southern Ijaw and by extension all Bayelsans still remains as Ministers Amaechi and Dan Ali remain the arrow head of the planned theft of the votes of Bayelsa people through intimidation, fake military personnel and doctored voters cards manufactured in Port Harcourt by Indian IT mercenaries imported by the APC.”
Onaiwu urged security agencies to remain impartial, non-partisan and called on the people to once again reject any attempt by any group or individuals to hijack their inalienable right to decide who to govern them as they did the last time.
- December 11, 2015 @ 11:50 GMT|
