Gov. Wike says INEC is incapable of conducting credible elections in 2019

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not be able to conduct credible elections in 2019

He attributed his belief to the refusal of President Mohammadu Buhari to sign the amended Electoral Act which he said was a deliberate ploy to rig the polls in connivance with INEC.

Wike stated this while receiving the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif and others, at the Government House, Port Harcourt.

He said: “Let’s not deceive ourselves, INEC is not prepared for credible elections. If there is an agency that is not prepared for 2019, it is INEC. I have no confidence in it, as there is no amount of the commission’s preparations that will convince me.

“INEC chooses how it interprets laws to suit those they support. They choose which court orders to obey and the ones to disregard. In one state, where it favours a particular party, they obey. In another state, INEC will claim they are yet to see judgments that are against the party they support.”

The governor also warned against any attempt by INEC to rig the will of the people in 2019 as he said it would be resisted.

“In 2019, whoever wants to manipulate the process to destroy the outcome, the people will come after that person and the family.

We will not agree for anybody to rig elections here in Rivers State. Nobody will do anything contrary to the will of the people,” he said.

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