Wike Raises Alarm Over Alleged Plot By INEC, APC To Disrupt Edo Election

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, says there are plans in some quarters to compromise the Edo State Governorship election on September 7 in a desperate attempt to forestall the return of Governor Godwin Obaseki to office.

Speaking, during a press briefing at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Monday, Wike, who is also Chairman of the PDP Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship election, said APC is jittery of a free and fair election.

He alleged that part of the tactics deployed by the APC is to have the security agencies compromised the Sept. 11 elections in Edo State.

He added that the Campaign Council is privy to intelligence reports on how security agencies intend to execute their plans in Edo, which will be exposed in a few weeks.

“Why is the APC so confident about what will happen. It is because they think that they have security on their side. But in a weeks time, we will roll-out all their game plans as regards security in this election. We will roll-out their game plans with all the security to rig this election.

“We know the modus operandi of security in this election. When they want to rig the election, we know what they do. We have gathered enough intelligence on what they intend to do and we can tell you, we would scuttle it.

“If I were the IG or the Chief of Army Staff, I will use this election to tell Nigerians that our country can be better so that if we had been accused before, we can use this election to correct it.

“And then INEC too should come and make Nigerians have confidence in them. And we want to say that the statement made by the INEC Chairman, saying that if there is violence, they will stop the election.

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“In that case, you will play to the hands of the opposition, because what they want to do is make sure that there is more violence and then the election will not hold and then by November, Obaseki’s tenure would have ended. That is why they went ahead to do that illegal inauguration of their own Speaker of the House of Assembly.

“They (APC) are not interested in the election. All they want is to cause enough violence so that INEC can cancel or suspend the election and then wait till November when Obaseki’s tenure would have ended. We know all this system,” Wike said.