The leadership of the Labour Party has expressed shocked by the revelations emanating from Rivers state after the presidential and national assembly elections which held on Saturday.
The party alleged that “thugs believed to be agents of the state government invaded various polling units and collation centres, took away election materials, including the results sheets, manipulated the BVAS machines and uploaded fake results in to the Central portal.”
In press statement signed by Julius Abure, the National Chairman of Labour Party, “We took particular note of incidences in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, Rumukoro and several other areas where Labour Party was clearly leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins.
Governor Nyesom Wike, faced with stark reality of defeat even in the polling units in his compound in Worji, where LP scored 323 votes against APC and PDP’s 5 and 2 votes respectively, he used the soldiers and police to intimidate, harassed and snatched ballot papers.
