Atiku Raises Alarm, Calls for Rejection of Rivers LG Election, Says Ibas Has No Power to Superintend Process

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has called on opposition political parties in Rivers State to reject the local government election conducted on Saturday by the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Real Adm Ibok Ette-Ibas.

Atiku in a statement on Sunday described the election as a “travesty to elective democracy” and an “awful absurdity.”

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called the attention of Nigerians and the international community to what he described as tale tale sign of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) willingness to “throw caution to the wind in order to achieve an inordinate political advantage” ahead of the 2027 general elections.

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His full statement reads:

“The local government election conducted by the occupation government in Rivers State is an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.

“By the shameful and shambolic manner in which the occupation government went ahead to conduct local government elections in RiversState, 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.

“It therefore becomes necessary to call the attention of well-meaning Nigerians. international community and all friends and partners of Nigeria to the dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country.

“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.

“In the same breath, I wish to share my unflinching solidarity with the good people of Rivers State, who are currently victims of political brigandry to a power cabal which is bent on overturning their democratic rights at all cost. -AA