Rivers State governor Barr Nyesom Wike has vowed to storm the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation center during the Collation of the Rerun National and State Assembly elections scheduled to hold next Month.
Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike, Governor of Rivers State was speaking yesterday Sunday 7 February, 2016 at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom during a thanksgiving service for his Supreme Court Victory which was Televised Live at the African Independent Television.
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“If you like, bring your Boko Haram soldiers to Rivers State, I will enter INEC office on election day (National and State Assembly rerun Elections), let me see who will push me out.”
He said: “Nothing is impossible with God. Men of God prophesied a few days to the Supreme Court that the judgment will confirm the mandate given to us by the Rivers people.
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“We won the election clearly as has been confirmed by the Supreme Court. If there was a rerun, I wouldn’t have contested because there would have been bloodbath. I resolved not to be part of anything that would bring bloodbath. “
Governor Wike said that an evil plot had been hatched to arrest him, detain him to discourage Rivers people before the Legislative elections earlier scheduled for February 6.
According to him, the political powers were already indiscriminately arresting PDP members and leaders across the state, preparatory to the rerun elections.
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The governor reiterated his earlier declaration that he will not allow the rigging of the rerun elections in the State, noting that any INEC staff who attempts to rig will be treated as an armed robber.
He said: “I am the executive governor of Rivers State and a strong one for that matter. We will support INEC to conduct credible elections. However, any official who plans to rig will get the treatment reserved for armed robbers “.
