The 2023 People’s Democratic Party PDP Presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku has called on opposition parties to reject the just concluded Rivers State Local Government election.
Atiku who made the call on X claimed the occupation government that conducted the exercise is extraneous to the country laws, with the absolute no legitimacy to undertake such a crucial and sensitive assignment.
According to him, “The local government election conducted by the occupation government in Rivers State is an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.
“By the shameful and shambolic manner in which the occupation govt went ahead to conduct local government elections in Rivers State, it is clear that the ruling APC party is not leaving anyone in doubt that it is prepared to throw caution to the wind in order to achieve an inordinate political advantage.
“It therefore becomes necessary to call the attention of well-meaning Nigerians. international community and all friends and partners of Nigeria to the dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country”.
Atiku shared his unflinching solidarity with the good people of Rivers, who he said are currently victims of political brigandry to a power cabal which is bent on overturning their democratic rights at all cost.
This follow the announcement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winning the chairmanship seats in 20 LGAs in the Rivers state council elections and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in three LGAs.
Michael Ekpai Odey, Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), made the declaration of results on Sunday.
It was reported that Siminalayi Fubara, the suspended governor of the state, lost his Opobo-Nkoro LGA to the APC while revealed that Fubara and his supporters were absent on Saturday during the elections.
Report further said that the State electoral body conducted the polls under the supervision of Ibok-Ete Ibas, the sole administrator of the state.
