Governor Nyesom Wike has warned against any plot to rig the
2023 elections in Rivers State.
The Governor who spoke during the flag-off ceremony of the
construction of the convocation arena in the University of Port Harcourt on
Tuesday said he will resist any attempt to manipulate the 2023 election in the
state warning that 2023 will be different from 2019.
Making reference to the recent appointment of
vice-chancellor of the institution, Governor Wike said it was regrettable that
political considerations have become a factor in the appointment of
vice-chancellors in Nigeria.
The Governor claimed that the VC’s are often expected to submit the names of returning officers that would favour the ruling party.
He however warned that nobody would be allowed to manipulate
elections in his state.
In his words “let me warn that not one person would dare to
rig election in Rivers State. I have told people, allow the university
community to be a university community to produce those who would be leaders of
this country. Don’t turn the university community to be where you have
politicians who would begin to manipulate and change the mandate of the people,
anybody who does that, it is a coup that they have plotted and you know the
punishment for coup plotters”.
“I want to say I’m not afraid of anybody therefore I don’t
care whoever the person maybe”.
He further advised the lecturers that “whoever may be
promising you, tell the person I have a family, so you too vice-chancellor go
and be the returning officer so that if you survive I will join you”.
The governor also warned against the move by the National
Assembly to remove electronic transmission of election results from the
Electoral Act.
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