Rigging: ‘INEC Officials Won’t Leave Rivers Alive’ – Wike’s Ex-ally Threatens

The governorship candidate of the National Rescue Mission, NRM, in Rivers State, Sobomabo Jackrich, has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the state governor, Nyesom Wike, to rig the gubernatorial election.

Naija News reports that Jackrich, who was once the Caretaker Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area in Rivers and Wike’s ally made the claims during an interview on Arise TV.

According to him, the Labour Party recorded massive votes during the presidential election but Wike rigged the election for a particular candidate and youths of the Asari-Toru LGA have decided that rigging will not be repeated.

He further threatened that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, coming to the state with the intent of rigging the governorship and state assembly elections will not leave alive.

Jackrich also claimed that Wike is making plans with some security agencies in the state to arrest and take him away from the state to ensure he is not on ground during the election.

He said: “There’s nothing hidden under the sun. The immediate past presidential election in Rivers State in particular, in my LGA, Asari-Toru, even though I have reports from the other LGA, the will of my LGA was the LP candidate.

“LP won the majority of the seats but all of a sudden everything turned around to be something else. And that gave me concerns. People across the board are murmuring and are not comfortable with the electoral umpires because we saw an open rigging.

“We saw the conspiracy between the ruling party of the state and the umpire, the INEC. Now this gives the concern to say that if this thing can be done like this in the presidential election, the governorship election we’ve lost hope and people are saying they’re not going to come out and vote because their votes will not count. This would mean that only the people who have perpetrated this act and their co-hurts will come out and vote.

“If they come into the state and do not do the right thing and rig again for a particular candidate then they’re not leaving the state alive, knowing that the youth have decided that the votes must be counted this time, the Governor in partnership with some security agents met and directed that I should be arrested, in fact that I should be framed up and arrested so that I’ll not be on ground during the election.

“And as I speak, the Commissioner of Police has invited me. The Governor has partnered with some security agencies to see how they can arrest and take me away so that on election day they can have a free way of rigging the election. This is why I’m raising an alarm to inform the general public.”