Rivers State Protesters Storm INEC Headquarters In Abuja, Demand Removal Of Resident Electoral Commissioner

 

 Rivers state indigents have taken their protest to the office of the  Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) In Abuja calling for the removal of Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner Gesila Khan

The protesters numbering hundreds, stormed INEC headquarters early today asking that Ms. Khan be removed from conducting Saturday's governorship elections because she is already compromised.

 

The protesters were made of mostly the  All Progressives Congress (APC) and Coalition of Nigerian Political Parties Rivers State chapter, claimed the state REC Gesila Khan was partial and biased in the conduct of the last week Presidential Election in the state.                                                                                  

  

They carried placards with the following inscriptions; remove Rivers REC now, No more rigging in Rivers State, Gesila is corrupt, Jega save us, 13 Political parties demand REC removal, INEC ad-hoc staff thumbprint for PDP in Rivers, We will not allow Gesila to conduct Governorship election.                  
 The Coalition of  Political Parties also described the Resident Electoral Officer as an embarrassment to the Commission, who allowed electoral officers to thumb print for a political party under her watch. " She gave the result sheet to PDP Leaders in the State to write the result".                            

They called on the INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega to redeploy the Commissioner in the interest of democracy, just as he maintained that the people of Rivers State would resist any attempt to repeat the massive fraud that was orchestrated during last Saturday's presidential election.