PDP accuses Amaechi of attempt to disrupt governorship election in Rivers

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Bro Felix Obuah, says alleged attempts by Governor Rotimi Amaechi to disrupt the state governorship and Assembly elections held on Saturday by illegally storming voting units, where he was not registered, in company of his Chief of Staff and failed House of Representatives candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Tony Okocha, and armed men, when he was not an electoral staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission or an election observer was a contravention of the electoral law.

Obuah said Amaechi has no right under the law to travel round the state and monitor elections, incite voters and campaign openly on an election day.

In the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Jerry Needam, Obuah condemned what he termed brazen act of lawlessness by Governor Amaechi, “whose high level of rascality is unbecoming of a man that holds the exalted office of the governor of a state”.

The PDP also described as disgraceful and infantile the use of the name of the APC President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, by Amaechi to threaten and harass security officers.

The PDP applauded Rivers State people for massively voting for the governorship candidate of the PDP, Barrister Nyesom Wike, and state Assembly candidates of the party.

The PDP described the call for the cancellation of Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections by the APC as unreasonable, provocative and a call for anarchy borne out of desperation on the part of Amaechi to remain in power even after serving his legitimate eight years.

Describing Dakuku Peterside, Rotimi Amaechi and the APC as bad losers, the PDP called on them to congratulate Wike for the massive votes he received, justifying the love the people of the state have for him and the PDP.

PDP urged Amaechi, Peterside and the APC to learn from President Goodluck Jonathan who conceded defeat and congratulated Buhari.

The statement added: “We therefore, reject calls for the cancellation of the governorship and State Assembly elections.

“The elections were peaceful, free and fair. We are satisfied with the conduct of the elections. We hail the outcome. It is the true verdict of Rivers people. Rivers people have spoken.”