Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, ahead of the delivery of
judgment today in the state’s governorship election filed
by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr.
Dakuku Peterside.
The Rivers State Elections Tribunal is led by Justice
Mohammed Ambrosa and has been sitting in Abuja.
The exchange of addresses by counsel to the petitioners—
Peterside and the APC—as well as the respondents—Wike,
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC)—took place on
Thursday, with the tribunal adjourning indefinitely for
judgment.
Information, however, filtered out in Port Harcourt, the
Rivers State capital yesterday afternoon that the tribunal
would deliver judgment in the case at 10 a.m. today.
Some international observers and other stakeholders who
monitored the April 11 governorship election in Rivers
State, as well as eminent personalities who testified before
the tribunal had described the poll as a sham, saying that
it was characterised by violence, massive rigging,
intimidation of voters and snatching of ballot boxes.
Wike, a former Minister of State for Education, and the
Rivers State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Felix Obuah,
however, maintained that the election was free, fair,
credible, peaceful and violence-free, describing the turnout
of the electorate as impressive, massive and
unprecedented.
The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Rivers State, Samuel
Nwanosike, said yesterday that he and other members of
the PDP in the state were awaiting the tribunal’s judgment,
stressing that the lawyers to the Rivers governor, PDP and
INEC had done a good job.
Asked what Wike and other members of the PDP in Rivers
State would do if the judgment went in favour of the
governorship candidate of the APC, he said that it would be
subjudice to comment on a matter before a court or
tribunal.
On his part, the Publicity Secretary of the APC in Rivers
State, Chris Finebone, said he had no comment.”
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