Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the Rivers State LG poll and its outcome as “an awful absurdity and a travesty to the very notion of elective democracy.”
Atiku, in a statement on X on Sunday, criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the conduct of the elections.
Chronicle NG reports that the All Progressives Congress, APC, won 20 chairmanship seats in the election, while the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won three chairmanship positions.
In reaction to the development, Atiku said, “By the shameful and shambolic manner in which the occupation government went ahead to conduct local government elections in Rivers State, it is clear that the ruling APC party is not leaving anyone in doubt that it is prepared to throw caution to the wind to achieve an inordinate political advantage,” he said.
He called on Nigerians, the international community, and partners of the country to pay attention to what he described as a “dangerous curve that the President Bola Tinubu regime is taking our dear country on.”
Atiku also appealed to opposition parties in Rivers State to reject the election results.
“I will also call on all opposition parties in Rivers State to reject the local government election on the premise that the occupation government that conducted the exercise is extraneous to our laws, with absolutely no legitimacy to undertake such a crucial and sensitive assignment,” he stated.
He concluded by expressing solidarity with the people of Rivers State, who he said are “currently victims of political brigandry by a power cabal which is bent on overturning their democratic rights at all costs.”
