Convicted Fraudster James Ibori’s Daughter Storm Collation Centres With Thugs, Security Agents To Steal Ballot Papers
Convicted Fraudster James Ibori’s Daughter Storm Collation Centres With Thugs, Security Agents To Steal Ballot Papers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Hon. Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu of raiding collation centres with thugs and security personnel to cart away ballots and BVAS machines used during the state governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday.
Ibori-Suenu was the PDP’s candidate in the Ethiopia Federal Constituency and won the seat in the House of Representatives for the constituency during the February election.
This was stated in a press statement released by Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, Deputy Director, Media & Publicity, Delta PDP Campaign Council/State Publicity, alleging that the electoral materials were taken to the house of a popular politician in Oghara town.
Ibori-Suenu is the daughter of former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori, who was jailed in UK for fraud and money laundering.
The statement reads: “We have been reliably informed by credible, impeccable sources from Oghara, that Hon. Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu, accompanied by a squad of fully armed suspected soldiers, policemen, and identified thugs and miscreants, has stormed the collation centres in Units 7 & 8, Oghara, to forcefully seize and cart away already cast ballot papers, electoral materials, and equipment, at the polling units, while threatening anyone who dared to stop them.
“We also have it on very good authority that the hijacked materials were taken to the home of a very popular politician in Oghara, where massive thumbs-printing of fresh, substituted ballot papers have already been concluded, and some incredible, mind-boggling results have been released into the public space.
“It is amazing and quite disappointing that at this critical stage in Nigeria’s electoral development, when we have fully embraced technology and deployed the BVAS as the game changer in our election processes, some people would still believe that they can get away with the old fashioned ways of securing election results, through ballot box snatching, multiple thumb printing and gross, massive manipulation of figures in their favour.
“This press release, therefore, is to put INEC on notice that we have ample faith in the BVAS and will reject completely, any results released, declared, or announced, which do not conform with the numbers already declared at the polling units, which were duly recorded by our agents and the electoral officers during the conduct of the election or numbers that did go through the BVAS machine.”
“We are also at a loss to fathom how someone who was only recently elected as a Member of the Federal House of Representatives, would embark on such a disgraceful, infantile, and anti-democratic act, even as we are totally embarrassed and left wondering what kind of representation she would provide for her people, if she can stoop so shamelessly low, to manipulate results and sabotage an election against the wishes of her own People,” the statement added.
