[TOP STORY] Tonye Cole: There’s a plot to prevent APC from challenging Rivers guber poll result | TheCable
, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers, says his party is being frustrated from challenging the outcome of the state governorship election.
Fubara polled 302,614 votes to defeat Cole who scored 95,274 votes. However, the APC and its governorship candidate rejected the result of the election.Cole said he was slapped and injured in the fracas that broke out at the INEC office in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. Some PDP members who were already at the INEC office reportedly insisted that both parties must inspect the materials at the same time – a situation that resulted in violence.Speaking on what transpired, the APC candidate said his party has not received the expected cooperation from INEC as regards the election materials.
“It is either we are being prevented from gaining access to CTC documents that we need to build our case or we are being prevented directly so that we can run out of time.“Both of them are tied together. First, our lawyers were arrested. All the evidence we are building was taken. We spent Saturday and Sunday trying to retrieve all of these.
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