Today’s presidential and National Assembly
elections have turned out to be a big nightmare
for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers
State, with the members being killed, attacked
and disenfranchised in various parts of the
State.
“Armed militias working for the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) have intensified their
killing of APC members. Scores have already
been killed and several others marked for
elimination. This morning in Kpite Town, Tai
Ward 2 and other areas of the State, five
people were shot dead by PDP’s armed militia,
and that was before accreditation commenced,”
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya, said in a statement in Port Harcourt.
Pictures of our killed members are attached.
Lamenting his party’s ordeal, Ikanya said: “It is
sad that PDP and its collaborators are targeting
APC strongholds and chieftains for attacks and
killings. To intimidate our people and contrary
to the court ruling forbidding the use of the
Army in this election, there has been a massive
deployment of soldiers in the State with clear
instruction to shoot at sight any APC agent that
refuses to comply with the evil plot of PDP to
write the results of the election at some
designated areas of the State in favour of PDP.”
Chief Ikanya gave the following specific
horrifying examples of APC’s travails:
•Hon. Chidiebere Okwuwolu, former
Commissioner and currently an APC leader, was
arrested by police and taken to Olu Obasanjo
Police Station in Port Harcourt along with 99
other arrested APC members scattered in
various Police Stations in the State.
•At Ubima, the home town of Governor
Chibuike Amaechi, the INEC results sheets are
currently with Chief Nyesome Wike, the guber
candidate of PDP in Rivers State. Governor
Amaechi has refused to embark upon any
accreditation because of lack of result sheets in
all the polling units in the State, a situation
contrived by INEC and PDP to make room for
PDP to rig the election.
•At Andoni, the Local Government Area of
Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya, and Chief Uche Secondus, the National
Vice Chairman of PDP and his cousin, Engr Tele
Ikuru (the Deputy Governor of Rivers State who
few days defected to PDP) hell has been let
loose; electoral materials have been hijacked by
PDP agents in connivance with the Army that
has been threatening to arrest and kill any APC
chieftains in sight.
•The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Andoni
Local Government area, Esuku Esuku, has been
ordered out of Ngo, headquarters of Local
Government, by the Joint Task Force (JTF)/army
personnel deployed to Ngo, or be killed. •At
Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local
Government, materials are being distributed
from the house of Minister of Sports, Chief
Tammy Danagogo, instead of the INEC office,
without any security personnel. Danagogo has
held the policemen that ought to escort these
materials to the polling units hostage and
injuring DPO of Abonnema, Mr. Joseph Kayode
for daring to accompany Hon Isobo Jack the
Commissioner for Urban Development to the
Polling Unit, relevant pictures attached.
•PDP thugs hijacked materials and INEC
personnel meant for Akuku-Toru Wards 15, 16
and 17. The hijacked materials and men were
taken to Freetown, a hinterland coastal
community. The attack was led by two youths
whose identities are known. •In Tombia, in
same Akuku-Toru Local Government, PDP had
by Friday night filled the community with Ijaw
Youth Council (IYC) bouncers who were
attacking APC members and, at the same time,
preventing those returning home to vote from
entering the town. They were doing so in the
presence of soldiers who were too few in
number. The Caretaker Committer Chairman
and others were injured on Friday. The over 30
APC members that were to act as agents were
arrested. •In Buguma, which is the
Headquarters of Asari-Toru Local government,
policemen were busy all day arresting APC
chieftains. •In Gokana Local Government,
trained INEC ad-hoc personnel were replaced
with untrained manpower suspected to be PDP
members. This is believed to have been done in
connivance with the LGA Electoral Officer (EO).
•At Opobo/Nkoro, the Local Government Area of
Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, the gubernatorial
candidate of APC, the house of Opobo/Nkoro
Caretaker Committee Chairman, Loveday Jaja,
was torched after he escaped to avoid being
killed by the PDP hoodlums. Electoral materials
meant for the Local Government Area have
been diverted to John Africa/Ada Tom Pepple
Compound area where they are thumb-printing
in favour of PDP. One Barrister J.B Pepple was
caught with stained thumbs and he admitted to
thumb-printing. Another person Alafagha Oko-
Jaja had his head broken head and he is
seriously bleeding. No one is sure if he will
survive. The army has been going around the
community harassing people while Chiefs in
Kalaibiama are compelling them to vote for
President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP. This is
said to be on the orders of Chief of Army Staff,
Major-General Kenneth Minimah, who is also
from the town.
Mr. Harold Peterside a PDP Agent in Unit 006
Ward, Oopbo/Nkoro was caught with INEC
Register and fake Results Sheet at the Polling
Unit.
•At Oyigbo LGA, 40,000 incident forms were
being given out at 6:30 a.m. but they stopped
when the APC Agent complained about it. He
was however asked to leave the INEC office at
about 11:30 a.m.Already, 120,000 incident
forms have been to Port Harcourt LGA, 80,000
to Obio/Akpor and 50,000 to Ikwerre LGA. The
incident forms are one of the ways PDP plans to
use to rig the elections around the country,
especially in the South South and South East.
•In Okrika, there was sudden change and
appearance of fresh and inadequately trained
INEC ad-hoc staff who tried to persuade voters
to undergo manual accreditation, claiming that
card readers assigned to Okrika LGA polling
booths were not working (even without trying
them). In a few units where APC supporters
insisted on ‘No Card, No Accreditation’, the
card readers mysteriously began to work. But
in majority of the places manual accreditation
is being undertaken. Also in Okrika, there is
insufficient delivery of electoral materials by
INEC. Up till now no one, not even party
agents, has seen the original result collation
sheets. The INEC officials claim it is not
everything that they must explain. Meanwhile,
INEC delivered incident forms far excess of the
number of registered voters.
Meanwhile, PDP stalwarts are openly parading
bundles of PVC cards in their possession.
Rowland Sekibo, accompanied by police and
PDP thugs armed with guns, are going around
chasing away APC members from doing
accreditation. They had done so in wards 1, 7,
8, 9 and 2. They tore the tags of our agents,
beat them and chased them away, injuring
scores of them.
“We condemn this brazen rape of democracy by
PDP in collaboration with INEC and the security
agents. It is unacceptable as this is not what
democracy should be. PDP should allow Rivers
people to vote without guns pointed at their
throats,” Dr. Ikanya said in the statement.
Dr Ikanya passed a vote of no confidence on
the State Resident Electoral Commissioner,
Gesila Khan, declaring that she has failed
woefully as she is bent on carrying out her
secret agreement with PDP to return victory to
the party at all cost. Whatever trash she will
announce as the result of today’s election is not
acceptable to us and we ask for her immediate
transfer and a new date be set for a proper
election in Rivers State than the sham and
charade that was calculated to rubbish INEC
and democracy.
The pictures of our killed members are
attached.
Long Live APC!
Long Live Rivers State!!
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the State
Chairman, APC Rivers State.
28-03-15
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