Accord Party Rejects Rivers Guber Results

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The Accord Party in Rivers State has said it will not accept the results of the March 9, 2019 governorship election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The party
described the results of the governorship election, which saw the
reelection of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, as the product of militarised
election processes, armed thuggery, compromised election umpire and a
massively disenfranchised electorate.

Chairman of Accord Party in
the state, Nnanna Onyekwere, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt,
alleged that highly placed politicians in the state displayed crass
impunity, through the imposition of candidates and the primitive
orchestration of crisis in opponents’ camps- acts known to INEC and
tacitly encouraged by the election umpire.

The statement reads in
part: “The Rivers State chapter of Accord therefore rejects in its
entirety, the Rivers State governorship result announced by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on April 3, 2019 and
also rejects the national and state assembly results as announced due to
the following reasons:

“That whereas Accord, in Rivers State,
duly conducted its governorship primaries through an election panel
mandated by its National Working Committee on October 4, 2018, in which
Mr Nelson Amieye was returned by way of consensus and whereas Mr Nelson
Amieye voluntarily withdrew and was lawfully and duly substituted by
Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, corrupt officials of INEC contrived a report
purporting to have supervised another primary on the same day, which
produced one Precious Baridoo, knowing fully well that the national
working committee of Accord did not invite INEC to such an event and
venue.

“That the contrived and unauthorised primaries allegedly
supervised by corrupt INEC officials, enabled Precious Baridoo and his
sponsors to lay claim to the governorship ticket of Accord, thereby
confusing the electorate and causing grave damage to the fortunes of the
party in Rivers State.

“That the INEC fact-finding committee set
up after the suspension of the March 9, 2019 governorship and house of
assembly elections, neither invited Accord nor acknowledged the party’s
petition to the committee.

“That despite publishing the name of
Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs on its final list as the Rivers State
governorship candidate of Accord and having been duly served with the
stay of execution granted by the Federal Appeal Court on March 22, 2019
against the High Court ruling that set aside the candidature of Chief
Dumo Lulu-Briggs, INEC did not allow his agents into the resumed
collation of result of April 2, 2019 and did not mention his name on the
final result as announced on April 3, 2019.

“That Rivers people
were not allowed to vote in the February 23, 2019 Presidential and
National Assembly elections due to pervading violence that left the
elections inconclusive in several state and national constituencies.

“Again
on March 9, 2019, the Rivers electorate was not allowed to exercise its
fundamental right to vote as was succinctly enunciated by INEC in its
press statement of March 10, 2019 suspending the entire election process
based on reports from its officials in the field about widespread
disruption of elections and violence.

“That we are shocked that
INEC proceeded with the March 9, 2019 elections by collating figures
purportedly generated from an election which were, according to INEC,
marred by violence in substantial polling units.

“That the
improper conduct of some principal staff of INEC in Rivers State makes
it extremely difficult for us to accept that the figures so collated
(having been in INEC custody since March 10, 2019), actually emanated
from the polling units despite the widespread violence of March 9, 2019,
considering that all polling officials had since dispersed to their
homes due to the alarm raised by the electoral umpire.

“That
there were conflicting claims of collated results from INEC, the AAC and
the SDP. The AAC claims that it was leading in 15 LGAs before the
suspension of results but INEC had a contrary view. The SDP also
published its own results on the social media.

“Unfortunately,
before it suspended the entire electoral process, INEC did not deem it
fit to announce the LGAs it claimed were already collated and the
figures involved, thereby creating huge doubts about its credibility.”

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