INEC, APC trying to commit electoral fraud – Wike

Rivers State governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of working in close coordination in order to commit electoral fraud, ahead of the re-run elections billed to hold in December 10, 2016 in the state.

Wike, who condemned the act insisted that all the culprits arrested in connection with the printing of fake electoral materials in Port Harcourt should be prosecuted in an open and transparent trial.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt, yesterday, by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam-George, the governor said the APC had degenerated from a party of change, to a syndicate of forgers and electoral fraudsters.

He expressed shock that the INEC could betray its institutional independence, to work instead as an accessory to forgery, in collusion with the APC in a bid to rig the December poll.

The governor called on the Inspector-General of Police to head an investigation team, to unravel and prosecute the masterminds behind what he called “an industrial scale electoral fraud” by the APC and INEC.

He urged the people of Rivers State to rise in defence of their sovereign right to choose their own leaders.