Barely nine days to the 2015 General Election in
Nigeria, politicians and their cohorts have continued to adopt different
gimmicks to ensure success during the elections. According to the latest news
coming from Rivers State, the state’s Chapter of the All Progressives Congress,
APC has alleged that efforts are being made by President Goodluck Jonathan to
use a top official of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and the
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to rig the forthcoming general elections
in the State.
In a press statement issued Wednesday in Port
Harcourt, the party alleged that NDDC Executive Director, Finance and
Administration, Dr. Henry Ogiri, has been directed by President Jonathan to
work closely with Rivers REC, Mrs. Gesila Khan, to ensure that Jonathan wins on
March 28 while Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Chief
Nyesom Wike, wins on April 11.
The statement reads: “Acting according to the
script, Dr Ogiri has purchased a brand new Prado Jeep for Mrs. Gesila Khan and
the Jeep is currently parked at the village of Mrs. Khan in Ogbia, Bayelsa
State. In addition, Dr Ogiri has set aside a whopping sum of $100 million to be
deposited into the account of Mrs. Khan before the week runs off. To perfect
the plans of winning Rivers State at all costs, Mrs. Khan, who is from
President Jonathan’s village and his very close relation, was deliberately
posted to Rivers recently to ensure that PDP wins the State despite having been
overwhelmingly rejected by our people. For INEC to post President Jonathan’s
kinswoman to supervise the elections in Rivers State, which he has personally
confessed neglecting deliberately in his six years in office, simply betrays
the Presidency’s desperation to rig the elections as PDP can never win any free
and fair polls in Rivers State”, Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya
said.
“We will like the security organs to investigate
this woman and retrieve this car and expose Dr Ogiri for what he is. This is a
man who has failed to pay NDDC staff for months and has also failed to pay
contractors for services rendered to the commission, while funds are reserved
for use in rigging the 2015 elections for PDP”, Ikanya added.
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