Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the military and Independent National Electoral Commission officials of colluding with a former government top shot of the State (names withheld by us) to churn out fake results in the State House of Assembly election.
Governor Dickson made the accusation while speaking with journalists shortly after casting his vote in his home town, Toru Orua, Sagbama Local Government Area.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the governor as saying that Federal agencies deployed to the State are executing a premeditated plan to foist an unpopular political party on the State.
According to the governor, reports at his disposal indicated that several PDP members were prevented from voting in various communities including, Peremabiri, Okpoama and Bassambiri.
The governor stressed that the APC led by former government top shot was resorting to brigandage because it lacks the support base to win the election in Bayelsa State.
The governor who described what is happening in the state as barbaric, criminal and undemocratic, flayed the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State for his failure to enforce the electoral guidelines.
He said that it was a sad commentary on the nation’s security apparatus that it had failed to carry out its constitutional responsibility to provide the conducive environment for the citizens to cast their votes to elect their representatives and leaders.