Following the just concluded Rivers LG poll, the State’s political power dynamics have once again shifted as Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory’s Minister, has regained control over the state’s political grassroots, something that his successor and estranged political godson, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, had briefly taken away from him over the previous two years.
The results of the August 30 local government elections were announced by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party won three of the 23 LGs, while the All Progressives Congress, the state’s primary opposition party, won 20 of them.
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However, Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president, described the Rivers State poll election and its results as “an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.”
In a Sunday post on X, Atiku slammed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the way the Rivers LG polls were run.
“By the shameful and shambolic manner in which the occupation government went ahead to conduct local government elections in Rivers State, it is clear that the ruling APC party is not leaving anyone in doubt that it is prepared to throw caution to the wind to achieve an inordinate political advantage,” he said.
He urged Nigerians, the world community, and the nation’s allies to take notice of what he called a “dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country.”
Atiku further urged opposition parties to boycott the elections.
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“I will also call on all opposition parties in Rivers State to reject the local government election on the premise that the occupation government that conducted the exercise is extraneous to our laws, with absolutely no legitimacy to undertake such a crucial and sensitive assignment,” he stated.
Atiku concluded by reaffirming solidarity with the people of Rivers State, who he said are “currently victims of political brigandry to a power cabal which is bent on overturning their democratic rights at all costs.”
This is coming after the Rivers sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibas expressed satisfaction over the Rivers LG poll, adding that he was confident that the results will be credible.
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