The Labour Celebration in Rivers State has reacted to the claims by the factional Rivers State Chairman of the Nationwide Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Chijioke Ihunwo, that he and a few unnamed individuals wrote election ends in favour Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, candidates within the 2023 normal elections.
In a video trending on X, previously referred to as Twitter, Ihunwo had claimed on Saturday that the embattled Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martins Amaewhule, member representing Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency within the Home of Representatives, Okey Chinda, in addition to different candidates of the PDP, didn’t win their elections.
In accordance with the NYCN state Chairman, the Labor Celebration received squarely in Rivers State.
The Labour Celebration, in its response to Ihunwo’s claims, stated the current revelation confirmed that it undoubtedly received the elections within the state.
The Publicity Secretary of LP in Rivers State, Gogo Wellington believed extra reality can be revealed.
“This to a big extent goes to substantiate what we’ve been saying for the reason that conclusion of the 2023 presidential and gubernatorial elections, that the Labor Celebration undoubtedly received the elections right here in Rivers State.
“However the perpetrators of evil went forward to do what they did in cohort with INEC to see that the need of the individuals is undermined.
“They declared no matter it’s that they felt was for his or her good and known as it the 2023 election end result for Rivers State.
“I do know as their struggle deepens, extra reality might be revealed.
“You see how he was casually simply saying they’re those that wrote the outcomes for these individuals.
“It is rather unhappy that our democracy has plunged into this depth of distress,” he stated.
In an interview with Arogidigba World Journal, the LP Publicity Secretary added that the occasion wouldn’t take legal guidelines into its fingers however will look forward to the actions of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee and the Nationwide Meeting, by means of electoral reforms.
He stated, “Somebody that was not a workers of INEC, somebody that was not an electoral official in the middle of the elections will simply casually begin making such pronouncements.
“However that’s the actuality we face in Rivers State. That’s what we see through the conduct of each election.
“Individuals, partisan individuals might be given entry to end result sheets to undermine the need of the individuals and see to it that they manipulate the end result of the elections.
“We’re law-abiding residents and we is not going to take legal guidelines into our fingers.
“We watch and wait to see what INEC will do by means of electoral reform.
“We additionally watch and wait to see what the Nationwide Meeting will do by means of electoral reform, to see that this stuff don’t repeat.”
Ihunwo is an ally of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
He joined the camp of the governor after the Rivers State Home of Meeting served an impeachment discover on the governor on October 30, 2023, an motion that resulted within the State Meeting changing into factionalized.
The political disaster in Rivers State is a results of the sudden crack within the relationship between Fubara and the previous governor of the state, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.