Plot by the agents of the Rivers chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig the upcoming Rivers South East Senatorial District has been uncovered as the Police on Saturday, November 5, 2016 busted a fake INEC result sheets printing syndicate in Port Harcourt .
The printing press, Help-Mate Consult located at 12 Isiokpo Street, D-Line, Port Harcourt was printing fake result sheets for seven local government areas of the Rivers South East when the police stormed the facility upon an anonymous tip off.
Magnus Abe is the Rivers South East APC candidate for the rerun elections.
Atonye Peters, the director of the Help-Mate Consult and a prominent member of the APC from Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area claimed that the printing contract was given to him by Emma Chinda, an APC Leader and former commissioner for agriculture under Rotimi Amaechi .
According to him, the printing press has already completed two sets for two local government areas before the police got win of the illegal act.
He was arrested alongside three of his staff, Richard Koko from Okrika, Nanee Godday from Khana and Tammy Garrick.
Items recovered by the police at the printing press include a state-of-the-art printing machine and computers.
The police also recovered INEC Result Sheets Serial Number Booklets, which the printer used to authenticate the result sheets.
In an interview with Metro Watch, Rivers State chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Felix Obuah said the arrest of the fake printers of rerun elections result sheets has vindicated the body on the plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and APC to rig the forthcoming rerun elections .
Rivers IPAC secretary and chairman of the Accord Party, Precious Baridoo also condemned the plot to use fake result sheets to rig the rerun elections . He said that the APC and INEC would be resisted by the people of Rivers.
Uchechukwu Ichenwo, a local politician, urged the police to prosecute all INEC and Rivers APC officials involved in the printing of the fake rerun elections result sheets .
Also speaking on the incident, chairman of Social Democratic Party, Engineer Worlu and chairman of Nigeria Peoples Party, Deacon Princewill said that on no account should the matter be swept under the carpet by the federal authorities.
