Ex-Vice Chairman Condemns Electoral Violence In Rivers

People rasing their hands in compliance with police order as they walk pass the scene of a renewed clash between members of National Union of Road Transport Workers at Oshodi, in Lagos, recently.

A former Vice Chair
man of Emohua local council, Hon. Enyie, Friday Emie has criticized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the electoral violence that characterized last Saturday’s presidential election in Rivers State.
Hon. Enyie, who made the condemnation while speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt at the weekend expressed regrets that the opposition party in the state wanted to win either by hook or by crook.
The former vice chairman noted that it was amazing that in the 21st century people were still fighting one another in order to get into power.
He said electoral fraud and thuggery undermined the capacity of a nation to make positive change and pointed out that the votes were tools for a positive change in true and vibrant democracies world over.
Hon. Enyie remarked that many people were killed in the state as a result of election related violence.
He said the ambition of anybody was not worth the blood of any human being be it citizen or alien.
He said people who didn’t have compunction about the sanctity of human life should not be voted into power else the society would become worse for it.
He described the election in Rivers State as a rape of the peoples mandate.
Hon. Enyie said that a situation where the original result sheets of Rivers State were given to an opposition party gubernatorial candidate to doctor in private homes left much to be desired.
He stated that a careful probe of the result of Rivers State would reveal that even people who had died long before the election was conducted voted.
The former vice chairman warned the Rivers people not to allow themselves to be usedas corrupt politicians.

Chidi Enyie