The Rivers State National Assembly elections in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area have been postponed.
According to news reports, Dr Johnson Sinikiem, the State Independent National Election Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), claimed the senatorial election in Port Harcourt and the PHALGA II House of Representatives poll were suspended because to alleged anomalies.
The INEC commissioner made the announcement on Tuesday at the INEC Collation Centre in Port Harcourt.
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Sinikiem also stated that the panel would conduct extensive investigations before deciding on the next course of action.
He also cautioned those threatening the lives of the State Presidential Election Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Otuoke, Prof. Teddy Adias, to back off.
Sinikiem said: “I want to urge the public and our critical stakeholders to know that the function of a state collation officer is just to collate results of elections conducted at the various Local Government Areas of the State.
“He is not a supervising presiding officer nor a presiding officer that conducts elections at the polling units. He is only collating results already collated at the local government area level that cannot be changed except by the verdict of an Election Tribunal.
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“I urge those concerned, to seize forthwith in unleashing threats because his job does not involve accreditation, voting, counting, computation, validation of votes by parties at primary and Secondary levels.”
Sinikiem, on the other hand, has urged security agencies, including the Commissioner of Police and Co-Chairman of the Inter-Agency Advisory Committee on Election Security, to assist in preventing attempts to sabotage the collation of presidential election results in River.
Remember that Teddy Adias had earlier in the day raised the alarm about death threats made against him and his family by supposed Labour Party members.
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