Rivers Guber: Group Chides Army Committee For Excluding Youth

A group, the Rivers State Youth Leaders Assembly has flayed the fact-finding committee set up by the Army to look into the involvement of its operatives in the March 9 Governorship elections in Rivers State for excluding youth leaders during their visit to the state.
The Chairman Board of Trustee Rivers State Youth Leaders Assembly, Kennedy West who stated this in Port Harcourt, the state capital said youths were also victims of the election violence.
This is as West called on the INEC to quickly announce the results of the 17 local government areas in their possession, pointing out that the commission was unfair to people of the state.
He said that INEC is unfair to have prolonged the announcement of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections results in Rivers State when other states have known the governors’ that won the poll.
According to him: “We had a meeting with over 100 youth leaders under the auspices of Rivers State Youth Assembly to x-ray the political situation in Rivers State and we came up with the resolutions first that we want to query INEC for the prolong ceremony towards collation of 17 local government results they have in their possession.
“We feel it is a plan with the opposition party to hijack the will of Rivers people as being expressed on the 9th of March, 2019. We feel that INEC is unfair to Rivers people because their processes are against the INEC procedures towards electioneering processes” he said.
Also speaking, President General of Rivers State Youth Leaders, Prince Jeminiena urged INEC not to delay further in announcing the results of the March 9th governorship and House of assembly elections for the sake of peace in the state.
Jeminiena said the Rivers State Youth Assembly will meet to review the recent timeline released by the electoral body on the conclusion of the electoral process in the State.

Dennis Naku