The Governor of Rivers State, Nyeson Wike, has banned all forms of public protest in the state until further notice.
Wike made this known through his Twitter handle on Thursday.
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Chief Dumo Lulu- Briggs, the Accord Party gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, has called for the cancellation of the March 9 Governorship and House of Assembly elections for lack of credibility.
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has fixed April 2, to deliver judgment in a motion filed by the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress in Rivers, Biokpomabo Awara, praying the court to stop the INEC from resuming the collation and announcement of results of the state’s governorship election.
The Nigerian Union in South Africa has expressed displeasure with the alleged violent attack of Nigerians in the latest wave of xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced dates for the resumption of collation of results and rerun polls in Rivers State.
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday declined to give an order stopping the collation of results of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Rivers on March 9.
Eighty-eight political parties which participated in the 2019 General Elections in Rivers State have expressed disgust over calls by a few card-carrying members of the All Progressives Congress working with the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, urging President Muhammadu Buhari amongst others to transfer officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission that conducted the elections in the State.
The representative of Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said that no one can handpick a governor for Rivers State.
The All Progressives Congress has faulted the decisions of the Independent National Electoral Commission on the initial inconclusive elections in Rivers and Bauchi States.
Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, said Tuesday in a statement from his media office that the militarisation of elections to the extent of taking a collation centre to a military location and denying international observers access “is clearly unacceptable and a grave breach of democratic norms”
The Independent National Electoral Commission has accused the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force of allowing its personnel to take over its office in Rivers State.
The electoral body announced its decision on Sunday as other states went ahead with the announcement of the results of Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly election.
No fewer than eight persons were killed as violence rocked Rivers and Ondo States in Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission will only allow and accept party agents with verifiable means of identification, whose names are on the list submitted by political parties at polling stations.
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has called for the immediate release of the State Commissioner of Education, Dr. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, his family and the State Co-ordinator of Arise Nigeria, Hon. Benjamin Diri, arrested by the Nigerian Army 6 Division, Port Harcourt.
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has adopted the governorship candidate of the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, Pastor Ezekiel Warigbani, for Saturday’s election.
The security in and around the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State was on Tuesday beefed up by armed personnel from the state police command.
No fewer than 13 persons have been detained by the Nigerian Army over illegal possession of ballot papers and bribe taking during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed March 8 to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from contesting the March 9 governorship election.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, is leading in 10 of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State in the results so far released.