BEVERLY HILLS, May 30, (THEWILL) – The Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has claimed that his administration refused to celebrate this year’s Democracy Day because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has destroyed the foundation of democracy by attempting to allocate legislative seats in the state.
Speaking on Sunday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, at a thanksgiving service to mark the first anniversary of his administration, the Governor asserted that there was nothing to celebrate.
Wike alleged that the nation’s electoral umpire had completed plans to share legislative seats in the state instead of conducting the inconclusive rerun elections.
His words, “We will not celebrate democracy because INEC wants to determine who will represent Rivers State after two months of cancellation of elections so that it can allocate some seats to the All Progressives Congress and others to the Peoples Democratic Party. Is that democracy?
“We beg INEC to hasten to conduct elections in the remaining seats. We want our representatives in the Senate; we want our representatives in the House of Representatives. We are not saying that INEC should allocate seats to us.”
“We don’t want allocation, we want voting; we will not accept allocation of seats. We will only accept elections for the remaining seats.”
The Governor, who went on to rate his first year in office high, promised to deliver more people-oriented projects and programme in his administration’s second year.
“This is one year; you have not seen anything as far as development is concerned. In our second year, more development will be witnessed across the state,” he promised.
