Former Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has described the local government elections in Rivers State as “an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.”
The All Progressives Congress (APC) won 20 of the 23 local government areas, while the state’s ruling party, the PDP, won only three.
In a post on X, Atiku criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu, stating that 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 in order to achieve an inordinate political advantage.”
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He called on Nigerians, the international community, and the country’s partners to pay attention to what he described as a “dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country.”
Atiku appealed to all opposition parties in Rivers State to reject the election results.
He said, “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 concluded by expressing 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 cost.”
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