Rivers LG Polls: Viral Video Exposes Officials Involved In Overvoting, Rigging (Watch Video)
Controversy has trailed the recently conducted local government elections in Rivers State as a viral video surfaced showing officials allegedly engaging in overvoting and ballot manipulation.
The footage, which has been widely circulated across social media platforms, captured moments where the officers were purportedly seen doing overvoting and rigging.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) is yet to issue an official statement on the viral video.
However, the All Progressives Congress has emerged victorious in the Saturday Rivers State local government elections, securing 20 out of the 23 LGAs.
The Chairman, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr Michael Odey, announced the results at the commission’s Headquarters along Aba Road in Port Harcourt on Sunday afternoon.
According to Odey, the Peoples Democratic Party managed to clinch the remaining three LGAs.
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar described the Rivers State LG poll and its outcome as “an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.”
In a post on X on Sunday, Atiku criticised the administration of President Bola Tinubu over the manner the elections were conducted.
“By the shameful and shambolic manner in which the occupation government went ahead to conduct local government elections in Rivers State, it is clear that the ruling APC party is not leaving anyone in doubt that it is prepared to throw caution to the wind to achieve an inordinate political advantage,” he said.
He called on Nigerians, the international community, and partners of the country to pay attention to what he described as a “dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country.”
Atiku also appealed to opposition parties in Rivers State to reject the elections.
Sodiq Yusuf is a trained media practitioner and journalist with considerable years of experience in print, broadcast, and digital journalism. His interests cover a wide range of causes in politics, governance, sports, community development, and good governance.
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