The Labour Party (LP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel elections in Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, and Rumukoro local government areas of Rivers State.
National Chairman of the Labour Party LP), Julius Abure, made the call on Sunday.
In a statement, in Abuja, Mr. Abure said the Party leadership was shocked by the revelations from Rivers State after the Presidential and National Assembly elections which were held, on Saturday.
He claimed that thugs stormed various polling units and collation centres, carting away election materials, including the results sheets.
Abure also alleged that the thugs manipulated the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and uploaded fake results into the central portal.
He said: “We took particular note of incidences in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo, Rumukoro and several other areas where Labour Party was clearly leading in virtually all the polling units with very wide margins.
“Nigerians went into this election based on the assurances by INEC that the deployment of BVAS was a perfect antidote to electoral malpractices in Nigeria.
“But what transpired across Nigeria, if allowed to stand is purely a betrayal of trust of millions of Nigerians by INEC.”
According to the party chairman, military personnel and police officers connived with thugs to intimidate INEC officials and forced them to manipulate the BVAS late in the night.
“We demand that INEC investigate these atrocities against Nigerian voters by the political class.
“We are therefore asking that INEC should rise to the occasion and cancel all the unverified and manipulated results arising from the presidential and national assembly elections in parts of Rivers State.
“Particularly in places like Obio/Akpor, Khana, Eleme, Obigbo and Rumukoro amongst others.”