Annul Poll Results In Bayelsa Communities, Its Blatant Violation Of Rights – Gov Dickson

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has decried alleged election irregularities that took place in Nembe, Bassambiri and Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.

He said as a result of that President Muhammadu Buhari as well as other candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC were allegedly allotted fake results.

The presidential poll result as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Buhari had emerged winner, garnering a total of 15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival Atiku, who polled 11,262,978,

In a statement dated February 27 and signed by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, Governor Dickson claimed that elections never took place in Nembe Bassambiri and Constituency 4 of Southern Ijaw.

He said, “Nigerians should discountenance the purported figures allotted to President Buhari and the other APC candidates based on which they are declared winners of House of Representatives and Senate seats.”

Describing what happened in the area as “blatant violation of the rights” of the people to elect their leaders and representatives, the governor urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to annul the figures from the election which he said never held.

He said, “Our state condemns the purported result from constituency 4 of Southern Ijaw and the seven Nembe wards.

“We want the world and INEC to know that what happened in Nembe Bassambiri and Southern Ijaw Constituency 4 was a blatant assault on the rights of our people.

“There was no election, no vote. We are calling INEC to announce cancellation and discountenance itself from this charade and investigate and punish all its officers who are complicit in this.”