{"id":16259,"date":"2019-03-19T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16259"},"modified":"2019-03-19T22:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:24:40","slug":"rivers-ipac-urges-buhari-to-ignore-compromised-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16259","title":{"rendered":"Rivers IPAC urges Buhari to ignore compromised elders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Release<\/strong>
\nBy IPAC<\/strong> (Rivers State)
\nThe Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Rivers State is shocked and embarrassed by calls by some compromised pro-APC Elders convened by (a) desperate Minister … for President Muhammadu Buhari to interfere in the Rivers State Governorship Election Collation Process with a view to subverting the will of Rivers people.
\nWe have Information that these Pro-APC Elders have written to the President, demanding that the President should intervene in the Rivers State Governorship Election Collation Process, halt same and create the atmosphere to disable INEC from concluding the elections in the State.
\nIPAC Rivers State views the letter of this Elders to the President as devilish,\u00a0wicked and an affront to the good people of Rivers State who overwhelmingly voted for the Rivers State Governor,\u00a0Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of the PDP on March 9, 2019. It is unfortunate that these Pro-APC Elders would allow themselves to be used by the desperate Minister … who is bent on imposing his stooge on Rivers State as Governor.
\nAs elders and stakeholders,\u00a0we expected these Pro-APC elements to drop their political affiliations and face the reality of the time. We expected them to embrace the choice of Rivers people,\u00a0rather than dance to the satanic tunes of the Minister ….
\nThese Pro-APC Elders sponsored by the Minister … cannot claim ignorance of the (alleged) negative roles played by the Nigerian Army as they (allegedly) attempted to subvert the will of Rivers people during the Governorship and State Assembly elections.
\nAs acknowledged by the INEC\u2019s Fact-Finding Committee, the general elections took place in majority of the polling units of Rivers State.\u00a0 Collation of results and declarations has already been made in majority of the State Constituencies and the PDP won in all these areas.
\nThis was in spite of the failed attempt of the AAC\/APC alliance to use the army and F-SARS to subvert the will of Rivers people. It was a horrible and disgraceful sight to see Nigerian Army personnel captured on video at different Local Government Collation Centres, including Ogo\/Bolo, Okrika,\u00a0Port Harcourt,\u00a0Khana,\u00a0Eleme and Akuku-Toru marauding and attempting to snatch collated results.\u00a0 The most despicable of which, was the invasion of the State Governorship Collation Centre by the Army on March 10, 2019, which was broadcast on National Television to the entire world
\nInstead of condemning the unnecessary militarization in a democracy and the manifest use of violence by the army in the State during the elections in our dear State, the Pro-APC Elders chose to exhibit selective amnesia.
\nThis last minute desperate correspondence by the Pro-APC Elders contracted by the Minister … is simply another vain attempt at subverting the conclusion of the Collation Process.
\nApart from the signatories, the content of the ignoble letter is similar to that of the March 19, 2019 Press Release by the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army.\u00a0 The International Community and INEC have since indicted soldiers for their illegal roles in attempting to subvert the will of Rivers people.\u00a0 Therefore, the lies contained in the Elders\u2019 letter to Mr. President should be taken for what it is: politically motivated cooked-up bunkum unworthy of the paper it is written.
\nWe call on Mr. President to disregard the calls by these Pro-APC Elders to transfer the INEC officials that conducted the elections in Rivers State.\u00a0 This was the same call made by the Minister … after he lost his polling unit …. It was the same request made by the sacked leadership of Rivers APC and their AAC allies. But they pretend to know that the election in Rivers State is a process, which cannot be truncated without right lies and frivolous allegations by misguided and partisan Elders.
\nIndeed, it is embarrassing that the Pro-APC Elders and lackeys of the Minister … are threatening violence. How on earth would no less personalities … place partisan and monetary considerations above the interest of Rivers State. At this age in their lives, they should be conscientious enough to repudiate the ignoble schemes, treachery and shenanigans of (the minister).
\nIPAC Rivers State further calls on the President not to take any step that will jeopardize the Collation and Declaration of Governorship Election Results in Rivers State. We have confidence in the INEC Rivers State and they should be allowed to complete the process.
\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Governorship and State Assembly elections in Rivers State have been concluded as announced by INEC in its Press Release.\u00a0 It is obvious from results in all the polling units that Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has been re-elected.\u00a0 We are only waiting for the formal Collation and Declaration of the results as required by law.
\nConsequently, the arm-twisting ploy of these Elders hired by the Minister … will not work. The will of Rivers people will prevail.\u00a0The AAC\/APC\/Army conspiracy is aware of this fact,\u00a0hence the last minute desperation.
\nWe welcome the widely reported decision of Mr. President not to interfere with the electioneering process in any of the states where Governorship Elections is yet to be concluded.\u00a0 We urge the President to stick to his words and ignore these Elders who have become paid agents of ….
\nRivers people have voted for their Governor and they have voted for their State Lawmakers.\u00a0 A few misguided old men acting on behalf of an anti-Rivers Minister cannot subvert the will of Rivers people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Release By IPAC (Rivers State) The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Rivers State is shocked and embarrassed by calls by some compromised pro-APC Elders convened by (a) desperate Minister … for President Muhammadu Buhari to interfere in the Rivers State Governorship Election Collation Process with a view to subverting the will of Rivers people. We have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}