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#BuhariKillingDemocracy: Nigerians On Twitter Condemn Amaechi’s Inglorious Role In #RiversRerun [TWEETS]

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The hot topic on social media in Nigeria this weekend is the rerun elections in Rivers State which has been marred by rigging plots led by Nigeria’s minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.

The elections was marred by violence perpetrated by thugs working for the All Progressives Congress (APC). A ward agent of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was murdered by thugs under the command of APC chieftains on Saturday.

On the Eve of the Rivers rerun elections, Friday, March 18, 2016, a delegation from the President landed in Port Harcourt,

Sunday Morning, Rotimi Amaechi stormed a police station in Mile 1 in Port Harcourt to demand the release of an INEC collation officer who was arrested with fake results in Ward 10 of Port Harcourt Local Government Area. Apparently, the official, Mrs. Ekwi Adebisa had been compromised by Amaechi to doctor the result in favour of Amaechi’s APC candidate.

The photos of Amaechi at the police station, accompanied by 400 soldiers and other reports that he was on a rampage in Port Harcourt storming result collation centres and forcefully collecting the original result sheets and replacing them with fake ones hit social media and have gone viral.

Nigerians, apparently, fed up with the constant meddling of the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari in the electoral process with the intention of truncating the will of the people took to Twitter to express their disappoint with a hashtag, #BuhariKillingDemocracy.

Below are some of the top tweets on the topic:

https://twitter.com/Gomeznsude/status/711537080514564096

https://twitter.com/Rolex7Michael/status/711536849106374656

https://twitter.com/Gomeznsude/status/711536724464238592

And, the saddest,

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