Govt ‘has videos of atrocities committed by military’ I wasn’t caught with military uniform, cash, Wike’s aide insists
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State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared that no official of the
Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC) has powers to cancel
results already declared by the returning officers in the respective
constituencies.
The governor was speaking against the backdrop of
the insistence by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),
Aniedi Ikoiwak, that the commission had not released any results other
than the nine state constituency and one federal constituency results
announced on Sunday.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the
state has also called on INEC to cancel results of the re-run elections
on grounds of irregularities in the conduct of the polls.
Addressing
journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday, Wike insisted that no INEC
official was empowered to cancel a result already declared by a
returning officer and said those calling for the cancellation of the
results should do so according to the provisions of the law.
He
also disclosed that the state government has compiled videos of the
atrocities allegedly committed by the military across the state during
the rerun elections, saying that the videos would be released to the
public “at the appropriate time”.
He said, “The
military-orchestrated violence in the state could be part of a plot by
the APC to declare a state of emergency on the state on the premise of
heightened propaganda.”
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