PDP kicks as INEC suspends Rivers elections

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to suspend the governorship and state assembly elections in Rivers State.

Rather, the PDP called on the electoral body to announce the results of the polls, which it said had already been won and lost.

The main opposition party described the suspension of the electoral process as manipulative schemes by the INEC and the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government.

A statement yesterday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, berated the suspension order by INEC, saying the results of the elections had already been collated.

The statement said: “The PDP alerts that this is a premeditated plan by the APC-led Federal Government to use the instrument of INEC and security agencies to truncate the wishes of the Rivers people as already delivered at the polling units.

“Our party contends that elections have been concluded in Rivers state; results of the Governorship and House of Assembly polls have been declared at the various polling units, wards and local government collation centres and all returning officers and political parties in the ballot conclusively have the figures.

“It is therefore directly incumbent on INEC to declare the final results instead of deliberately creating openings for the subversion of the final process; a development, which exposes the commission’s complicity…”