The All Progressives Congress, APC, has affirmed its readiness to contend Rivers State with Governor Nyesom Wike.
The party, which described Wike as a distraction, called on the Nigeria Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to investigate the alleged audio of Governor Nyesom Wike threatening INEC staff over the December 10 re-run elections in the state.
Leaders of the party led the peaceful protest to the Rivers State Police Command on Moscow Road and the state headquarters of the INEC on Aba Road, where they appealed to the bodies to dig deep into the matter.
Deputy governorship candidate of the APC in the last governorship election, Mr Asita Asita, who spoke on behalf of the protesters, said they were not happy with release of result for Rivers East senatorial district by the electoral body when some elections had not been conducted in some areas.
“We have formerly presented a petition to the Chairman of INEC. We have also presented the petition to the Inspector General of Police through the Commissioner of Police in the state.
“We are protesting the conduct of the election especially in the Rivers East senatorial district, where election results were yet to collate in about four local government areas when the INEC went ahead to declare the results in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and present certificates.
“We have come to lay a formal complain to the INEC, now we had hoped that Wike will concentrate on the governance of the state. We have allowed him to govern, but he is distracting himself in the governance of the state. We are here therefore, to formally notify him that we are now ready to contend with him.”
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