Governor Nyesom Wike, in this interview, speaks on the battle for Rivers State. Wike alleges that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security services worked against his party, the PDP, in recent rerun polls into the National and state assemblies.
It is reported that there was an incident at Mile One Police Station between you, the police and the military. Can you throw some light on the incident?.
I was sleeping when I got a text that one of the candidates of my party, a former member of the House of Representatives, who was also a candidate in the re-run polls, Blessing Nseigbe, had been abducted and was at Mile One Police Station. I said it was not possible because I saw her the previous night with the leader of the party in Port Harcourt.
In fact, most of my workers had not even come to work because they closed very late the night before. So, I decided to drive down to see what happened. When I got there, she was there actually and they said she was upstairs. So, I went upstairs and asked about what happened. She told me there was a collation officer they had been looking for all through the night. But that they got information in the morning that the woman was at the Mile One Police Station; so they decided to find out what actually took place .
People were collating election result at Saint Andrew’s School, but they could not find the Ward 10 Collation Officer. As she was asking them the whereabouts of the collation officer, the police told her to go upstairs. She said why. They said she must come upstairs. Then before she knew what was happening, soldiers had surrounded the place. I suspected that was why they had to send me that text. So, when I got there, I saw the soldiers. I asked what the problem was, and they said they got information that people had been attacked at the Mile One Police Station. I said that if people had been attacked, was it soldiers that will come into the police station? So, I went upstairs and they now brought the woman, the collation officer. I asked her what the problem was. She said as they were coming out from the INEC office, somebody told her that a person wanted to give her a ride, but she said they were many, that she had to join her group. But the person who wanted to give the ride said it didn’t matter. So, she now entered the vehicle.
As she entered the vehicle, the person was no longer going to the collation. He diverted and then they told her to switch off her phone. I now asked her: How could somebody give you a ride when INEC had provided a bus for all of you to go to the collation centre? Assuming now it is true she was kidnapped, people will now say it happened in Port Harcourt, they kidnapped an Electoral Officer. I think they organized this kidnapping. So where was the result sheet? She said the police took it and this and that. So, I called the AIG in charge of the election. Then, some APC people came. I made my report and I think they took the woman to the state police headquarters for further interrogation. But we discovered that the woman is the girl friend of an APC House of Representatives candidate. So, if at all it was kidnapping, it was masterminded by the candidate. And she had already prepared a result in the spread sheet without the unit ward results collated
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