The winding road to 2023 Rivers state Governorship election for the All Progressives Congress candidate may be getting elusive as Independent National Electoral Commission-INEC has come out to deny not having participated in the Local government Congress elections that elected state Delegates. In the May 18th, 2022 Local Government Councils’ Delegates elections ought to have the presence of officials of INEC as stipulated by the Rules, but INEC authentic reports released to our reporter indicate that LGAs delegates’ elections already conducted prior to the arrival of the INEC officials only for the APC Local Government leaders to turn up with outcome of the LGAs delegates Result which INEC has allegedly rejected.
In the face of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area delegates’ election and that of Port Harcourt LGA delegates election are all the same in the unofficial processes that turned out Tonye Cole’s Governorship candidacy. Based on other allegations that marred the LGAs delegates’ election across the remaining 21 LGAs the APC members loyal to Senator Magnus Ngei Abe have come out to reject the outcome of the emergence of Tonye Cole as Governorship candidate of APC in Rivers state. Currently one of the Governorship aspirants Bernard Mikko had approached a Federal High Court Port Harcourt judicial division for adjudication on the alleged infractions that threw up Tonye Cole as Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress APC in Rivers state.
This may be one of the reasons distinguished Senator Magnus Ngei Abe is telling his teeming supporters that he must be on the 2023 Rivers state Governorship Ballot papers. He had never clarified the political party of choice with which he will use to launch himself to be in the 2023 Governorship ballot papers in Rivers state.