Rivers LG Elections: Nobody Voted, Court Will Thrash It – Eze, APC Chieftain

 

Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has described the recent Local Government Area election in Rivers as a joke.

 

Recall that the election was held last Saturday.

 

He hailed the people of Rivers State for boycotting the election. 

 

Eze said he believes strongly that the election will be thrashed by the court.

 

According to him, the election was managed by a team unlawfully appointed by the Sole Administrator, Ibok-Ette Ibas.

 

In a statement made on Thursday, Eze said the reaction from the Rivers people across the state’s 23 Local Government Areas embodies an outright rejection of the political illegality.

 

Eze said there were only 23 contenders for the chairmanship of the 23 local government areas, all of whom are followers of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, adding that it was surprising to learn that result sheets for the entire polling units of the state were hijacked and kept in a private hotel in Port Harcourt, where figures were distributed.

 

He counseled the public to disregard what he described as “the cooked-up trash being circulated as a result of the Local Government Councils election, as there was no election in Rivers State but allocation of votes to Wike’s cronies.”

 

“The FCT Minister lost his polling unit to the Labour Party during the 2023 presidential election. He could not deliver Tinubu. But on getting to the collation centre, the entire results were changed,” Eze alleged.