Rivers: We did not lose, we were robbed – APC Chieftain

PORT HARCOURT – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who doubles as the lawmaker representing Emohua constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Chidi Lloyd has said his party did not lose the keenly contested election in the state rather was robbed of its sure victory.

The Majority Leader in RSHA who is also seeking fourth term bid into the state legislature on the platform of APC disclosed this while reacting to the cancellation of the State House of Assembly election in his LG. He alleged that the APC was robbed of its victory by the PDP with the connivance of the INEC and the security operatives.

Lloyd said that the APC did its homework thoroughly through campaigns and was able to be having the majority of people on its side, adding that the people of the state were not allowed to express their will at the poll.

He said the result of the election does not reflect the will of the people of the state, stressing that all the electoral principles laid by the INEC were totally breached by the PDP. He called on the Rivers people to protest against the result which does not show their will.

“We campaigned to the voters on our pedigree and we convinced the voters to vote for APC but little did we know that they had some corrupt officials of the INEC who were sent here with a script on what to do in Rivers state. And the Resident Electoral Commissioner shamelessly came here to supervise this kind of social ebola that has taken place in Rivers state.”

“If in a local government area two elections were conducted simultaneously what was the premise on which one was announced and the other cancelled. That is what I keep telling people at different fora that what happened in Rivers state on the 28th of March and on the 11 of April are just a political telemundo.”

“An election that has been acclaimed by the national and international observers to be flawed with violence; in fact one of the groups said the election did not meet the minimum requirement set by the INEC, yet a cooked result was announced.”

 

Rivers: We did not lose, we were robbed – APC Chieftain